Alone like a pythoness on her tripod, like the oracle alone above the fissure into the unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference

Richard sought Bess; he saw much of the pythoness now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The President A novel] Reference

The pythoness, seated on her tripod, rises slowly from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

Like a pythoness possessed by the demon, she inspired awe rather than pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

The pythoness, or priestess of Apollo, at his approach, hailed him as king of Corinth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

There was a break, as if the pythoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

I confess I felt piqued that he only looked on me as a sort of pythoness to solve enigmas about you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

She sat convulsed with fury and violation, speechless, like a stricken pythoness of the Greek oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

She sprung to her feet -- she had been kneeling all this time -- and confronted him like a Saxon pythoness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Baronet's Bride] Reference

Seated in a shadowed chamber he poured out his artless tale to the pythoness, of course concealing all names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

Thereafter, Storri was no sooner in the Harley house when, presto! from over the way our pythoness sweeps in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The President A novel] Reference

Some submit to it painfully, striving against it just like the ancient pythoness at the time of giving her oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

But keep your wits about you when the pythoness ascends, or you will forget the questions you have come to ask her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

However, don't look like the pythoness in her fury, Ginty; a joke is a joke; and here's that he may be whatever you wish him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

The Greek prophet was the revealer of the future, and the interpreter of divine things, especially of the obscure oracles of the pythoness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In the enigmatic heart of its impenetrable iris cold fire lived, cold passionless flames leaped and died and leaped again like the sorcerous fire of a pythoness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Bell] Reference

To natural madness, to poetry and the other gifts allied to it, to prophecy like that of the Delphic pythoness, he has to add, fourthly, the "enthusiasm of the ideas.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

A mind in a quasi-delirious state, to be likened to that of the pythoness on the tripod, could have evolved the Rime of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

She gazed at him — a pythoness in humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie] Reference

Delphian pythoness of old declared her oracles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

"There now!" replied the pythoness, "you prevented me from hiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference

"Has it never occurred to you," she asked, slowly, with her pythoness air, "that there are murders and murders?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference

I am less enthusiastic about this pythoness, I confess; and as I do not know what kind of death is in store for me, I am somewhat uneasy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Une fille du régent. English] Reference

The pythoness upon the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus Rex] Reference

Wait til you see the pythoness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

She gazed at him -- a pythoness in humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference

We have listened to the pythoness, Cora Hatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echoes of the Week] Reference

8-14. bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee -- This pythoness united to the arts of divination a claim to be a necromancer (De.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

She is neither prophetess nor pythoness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Achievement] Reference

8.) of the pythoness at Philippi, (Acts xvi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Christianity] Reference