Pythoness

She was known as the Kansas pythoness in those days before women's suffrage made such references to a woman's sex politically incorrect. ❋ Ken Blackwell (2011)

Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti. ❋ Lexi Davis (2009)

Like a pythoness possessed by the demon, she inspired awe rather than pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Alone like a pythoness on her tripod, like the oracle alone above the fissure into the unknown. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had approached the family mansion in so blindly buoyant a spirit as to have set up his camera to photograph his first sight of it; and even the camera had taken on the semblance of the tripod of a tragic pythoness. ❋ Unknown (2003)

[Castro] We will have to go to Greece to see a pythoness, to hear what she has to say about it. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Mademoiselle Lenormand, and he resolved that Madame de Girardin, Mery and Theophile Gautier should drive with him to the abode of the pythoness at Auteuil. ❋ Juanita Helm Floyd (N/A)

The Greek prophet was the revealer of the future, and the interpreter of divine things, especially of the obscure oracles of the pythoness. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Euangelidai, etc. These usually elected the staff of resident priests, the schools of prophets (at the oracle of Zeus Ammon, e.g., under an arch-prophet), and even, at times, the pythoness. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For, in the end, a com - promise is effected: the priestess still sits by the cleft, drinks of the spring, still utters the frantic inarticulate cries of ecstasy; but the prophets of the rhythmic Apollo discipline her ravings into hexameters, and thus the will of Zeus, through the inspiration of Apollo, is uttered by the pythoness to all Greece. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It can readily be imagined that, the presence of this pythoness does not tend to restore the confidence which has become somewhat shaken between the husband and wife. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Then a sort of tension came over her, she raised her face like the pythoness inspired with oracles, and went on, in rhapsodic manner: 'Il Sandro mi scrive che ha accolto il piu grande entusiasmo, tutti i giovani, e fanciulle e ragazzi, sono tutti --' She went on in Italian, as if, in thinking of the Italians she thought in their language. ❋ Unknown (1907)

There was a break, as if the pythoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in ❋ Unknown (1907)