pythoness
Example Sentences
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Richard sought Bess; he saw much of the pythoness now.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
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 V. V. Vide
Liszt's attitude at the piano, like that of a pythoness, has been remarked again and again.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
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
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 William Davy Watson
