pythoness
Example Sentences
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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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The pythoness, or priestess of Apollo, at his approach, hailed him as king of Corinth.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Richard sought Bess; he saw much of the pythoness now.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
The pythoness, seated on her tripod, rises slowly from it.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
