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.
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Only a mind in a quasi-delirious state, to be likened to that of the pythoness on the tripod, could have evolved the Rime of Redemption 345 or Thorgerda 346.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
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
Thereupon ensued a hideous war; a yelling as of the evil demons with which the pythoness pretended to be familiar; unintelligible to vulgar ears; requiring an interpreter from the oyster-quays.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
And there in the door-way, like a picture in a frame, like a Saxon pythoness, her golden hair falling theatrically loose, her arm upraised, her face pale, her eyes flashing, stood Mollie.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes