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

One morning after Senator Hanway had departed, Dorothy took Richard across to meet the blonde pythoness.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

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

The scene in the glen, the image of the unprepossessing and mysterious pythoness, and the substance and manner of the sinister warning she communicated, were indeed fixed in her memory ineffaceably.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various