In conversation she was as copious and oracular as Coleridge, brilliant as Sterling, pungent and paradoxical as Carlyle; gifted with the inspired powers of a pythoness, she saw into the hearts and over the heads of all who came near her, and, but for a sympathy as boundless as her self-esteem, she would have despised the whole human race!
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
"Has it never occurred to you," she asked, slowly, with her pythoness air, "that there are murders and murders?
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
I replied in terms, the obscurity of which would have done credit to a professed pythoness, and I left Esther to translate the answer into common sense, and find a meaning in it.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt