| On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs. |
| But the pythoness was not wholly tamed, and she could not even yet forget her wrongs. |
| Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster. |
| An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical Latin via French. |
| It was a pythoness from Syria that advised Marius on the sacrifices he was to perform. |
| But she was a pythoness, and did not at all come up to our idea of a witch. |
