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

However, don't look like the pythoness in her fury, Ginty; a joke is a joke; and here's that he may be whatever you wish him!

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

“Carriages without horses shall go,” is the “prophecy” attributed to that mythical fifteenth century pythoness, Mother Shipton; really the ex post facto forgery of Charles Hindley, the second-hand bookseller, in 1862.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

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 Vide, V. V.

At some time in the past she seems to have been also a pythoness: the spirits of the gods possessed her and spoke through her lips.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio