pythoness
Example Sentences
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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
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
One morning after Senator Hanway had departed, Dorothy took Richard across to meet the blonde pythoness.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
She looked like a mad thing—like a crazed pythoness.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
