pythoness

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Against this doom Genevi�ve Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Humph!" thought I to myself; "where is the grand indignant pythoness, with the unspeakable wrath and menace in her countenance, whom I saw when I first entered the room?"

From The Leavenworth Case by Green, Anna Katharine

Richard sought Bess; he saw much of the pythoness now.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Some submit to it painfully, striving against it just like the ancient pythoness at the time of giving her oracle.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

Liszt's attitude at the piano, like that of a pythoness, has been remarked again and again.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James