pythoness
Example Sentences
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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
The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave
Richard sought Bess; he saw much of the pythoness now.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
And there in the door-way, like a picture in a frame, like a Saxon pythoness, her golden hair falling theatrically loose, her arm upraised, her face pale, her eyes flashing, stood Mollie.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes
There was a break, as if the pythoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in a rhapsody-wearied voice: 'And you see, Rupert isn't this, he isn't.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
