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

But keep your wits about you when the pythoness ascends, or you will forget the questions you have come to ask her.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

There was a break, as if the pythoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in a rhapsody-wearied voice: 'And you see, Rupert isn't this, he isn't.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

Seated in a shadowed chamber he poured out his artless tale to the pythoness, of course concealing all names.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider