pythoness
Example Sentences
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The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
It was the young Schiller, wild as a pythoness upon her tripod, with the Robbers, which became famous in the following year.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
"Well, then," said Dorothy resignedly, drawing the golden head of the pythoness down until the small, pink ear was level with her lips, "if you must know, let me whisper."
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
Liszt's attitude at the piano, like that of a pythoness, has been remarked again and again.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
This encouraged me to scrape acquaintance with the pythoness who guarded her, and by means of several small bribes, I was at length admitted to a private interview with Leonora.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
