pythoness
Example Sentences
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Not a trace of the sacred madness that uplifted the Delphian pythoness or provoked the delirious visions of a Jeremiah or an Ezekiel!
From The Secret of Sarek by Maurice Leblanc
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 Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
"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 Anna Katharine Green
The vision of the beautiful pythoness had deeply and powerfully affected the soul of Montezuma; and her closing appeal moved him even to tears.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by V. V. Vide
She sprung to her feet—she had been kneeling all this time—and confronted him like a Saxon pythoness.
From The Baronet's Bride by May Agnes Fleming
