Oh, Cassandra, Cassandra, my priestess of all that is good!
Friar John, with the Priestess of Bacbuc, was a washy bibber compared with him.
The play opens with a prayer made by the Pythian priestessat an altar in front of the temple.
His friend and admirer Chærephon had consulted the oracle at Delphi as to whether any man was wiser than Socrates; to which the priestessreplied that no other man was wiser.
Widow and priestess combined, she would have been helpless against the insult and profligacy of men of her own faith, and now she was at least safe.
Not even in her first office as priestess had her beauty been more glorious--the expression of her features more sublime.
Then slowly on through the people, who worshipped her as she passed; and out of the court into the street, where an open litter, such a one as she had sat in when they made her a priestess of the temple at Tooljapoor, awaited her.
Who would care for the ravings of a Brahmun, whose daughter, a priestess of the temple, had eloped, as it would be considered, with her lover?
And Tara told her little story: how she had become a priestess when the goddess called her; what she knew of holy books; how she had been carried off from the temple by Moro Trimmul, and how he had persecuted her before.
We would have made her over to the council for chastisement and discipline, because, as a priestess of Kalee, she hath been residing among the Moslems; but she claimed ordeal and sanctuary with the goddess, and we sent her here.
Both believed Tara to be a priestess of the goddess whom they feared.
So every one said that the beautiful daughter of Vyas Shastree had become a Moorlee or priestess of the temple, and that the goddess herself had called her from her disgrace of widowhood to the glory of her own service.
She was a priestess of Toolja Mata at Tooljapoor, was she not?
The High Priestess confides in me; Chios may do the same.
He would return to his studio, to his work on his great picture--the picture of his love, of the one being who haunted his life, of Saronia as High Priestess of Diana.
Thou art the High Priestess of the Ephesian faith, steeped in the ways of Hecate, initiated into the mysteries of life and death, respected by thy followers, looked up to as a pattern for all the world to follow.
She who gave me back my life--the great High Priestess Saronia.
Then, falling into one of her mysterious reveries, from which no priestess dared disturb her, they noiselessly glided from the room one by one, each bearing a lamp of gold, and Saronia was left alone.
The soul of the priestess was drawn away towards the glorious vision, and for a while she had forgotten herself.
The priestess was soon at the side of the wretched woman, and two attendants ministered to her wants.
By virtue of my office, High Priestess of the Lady Saviour, I pardon thee.
I knew the priestess princess, but the Roman I never saw.
I have her in my power, and could square accounts for Saronia, but what, I wonder, would the priestess say?
She is at the Temple, and has been initiated as a priestess for the presiding goddess.
The priestess of Diana in a barbarous land, she had passed the years in the duties of the sanctuary, and in acts of beneficence.
I do not enter a defense of the loveless coquette, but the woman who has a natural delight in awakening love in men is priestess of a divinity than which there is none mightier among the rulers of the heavens.
Oh, pulse of my heart, I know the gift we shall give to the Gael will be a memory to pity and sigh over, and I shall be the priestess of tears.
The way was long and difficult, and the old priestess could not attempt to walk such a distance; so she bade her sons Cleobis and Biton harness her white heifers to her car.
On one of these occasions, an old priestess was very anxious to go to Juno's temple at Argos, in which she had served the goddess many years in her maiden days, and which she had left only to be married.
When he joined the solemn procession that came to do homage to Venus, he saw the beautiful priestess and determined to win her in spite of the many restrictions that forbade even an acquaintance with one dedicated to the temple.
Since so much depended on the watchfulness and fidelity of the Vestals, the office of priestess to the temple was held in high honor, and the maidens were chosen from the noblest families of Rome.
A priestess was appointed who was named the Pythia, and her office was to sit upon a tripod placed over the chasm from which the divine afflatus proceeded.
Hero and Leander In the town of Sestus on the Hellespont lived a beautiful maiden named Hero, who was a priestess in the temple of Venus.
Then they repeat the ceremony and the chief priestess buries her balarao in the heart of the hog or slits the cock's neck.
For this it was the usual practice to fetch a hog, which the catalôna or priestess ordered the most graceful girl to stab with the knife, amid certain dances.
The offering was given to the priest or priestess who had performed the sacrifice.
She acted also as his priestess in his great temple at Upsala.
At Aegira in Achaia the priestess of Earth drank the fresh blood of a bull before she descended into the cave to prophesy.
Such a spring is said to have gushed from the foot of the great oak at Dodona, and from its murmurous flow the priestess drew oracles.
Women could also hold priestly rank, though apparently in early times only in the service of goddesses; "priestess of Hathor" is a frequent title of well-born ladies in the Old Kingdom.
The marvellous tales of the Westcar Papyrus, dating from the Middle Kingdom, narrate how three of the kings were born of a priestess of Re.
It was not a ceremony fit for smiles, but rather for the tears of gods and men, that the priest and priestess had performed.
Through the wide doors into the broad hall, up the grand staircase, through the luxurious rooms goes the high Priestess of the Temple of Love.
A priestess was appointed for the reception of its inspirations, and a tripod was placed upon a vent, from whence she gave oracles.
Another: "The council of Amphictyons and Achaians, in honour of Polycratea, high priestess of the Achaian Council, and daughter of Polycrates and Diogeneia.
All the mothers of the place, ravished with admiration, congratulated the priestess on the piety of her sons.
Oh yes, if the priestess will lend me the line I see there and the Piraean fisherman's votive hook; I will not keep them long.
You have fished long enough, Parrhesiades; there are so many of them, one might get away with gold, hook and all, and you have the priestess to pay.
He risked his life for the purpose of continuing his illicit amours with a priestess of Venus in a lonely tower.
And he led him to the holy oak, where the black dove settled in old times, and was changed into the priestess of Zeus, and gave oracles to all nations round.
As a matter of fact the god had carried him in his cradle to Delphi, where he was discovered by the priestess and reared as a foundling in the temple courts.
The elder priestess of Isis knew of Beroes, two priests who showed him the road to the temple of Set, and a priest who received him at the door.
The priestess had not left the goddess, but evil spirits had borne her off; for this they would be punished.
Because of this the whole city was shaken some days later under the influence of extraordinary tidings: Kama, the priestess of Astaroth, had been seized, borne away and lost, like a grain of sand in a desert.
At the villa of a Phoenician priestessnamed Kama," answered Mentezufis, watching the face of the heir sharply.
I am a virgin and priestess of the great goddess Astoreth.
While Mefres was trying to extort a confession from Sarah, the most active agents of the Pi-Bast police, and with them every Phoenician under the leadership of Hiram, were hunting the Greek Lykon and the priestess Kama.
And the priestess who commits it is to die," said the gray-haired Hiram.
The council resolved, first of all, to free Kama from her duties as priestess and remove from her the curse against a virgin who lost her innocence in the service of the goddess.
The priestess of the holy goddess Astaroth to be a favorite of an Egyptian?
When he had passed some tens of steps between trees, Phut found himself in the antechamber of the villa, where the priestess whom he knew greeted him.
But he frowned when he saw the priestess speaking with a stranger.
Art Thou really thepriestess guarding the fire of this temple?
But the sly Priestess brings her opiate spell, Soft charms that hush the triple hound of hell, Bids Orpheus tune his all-enchanting lyre, And join to calm the guardian's sleepless ire.
The priestess advanced from the altar, her eyes sought for the singer; when she came to the centre of the opening she paused and waited silently.
He turned and passed through the crowd; the priestess made a motion as if she would have stayed him, then she drew herself up proudly and refrained.
He turned round and cried out, "Your priestess speaks but half truths, her eyes have seen but her heart does not know.
The Alcmæonidæ contracted with the Amphictyonic council that they would for a certain sum restore the temple: and to acquire influence with the Delphic priestess they performed the task with splendour far exceeding what was required of them.
The priestess took no notice of what he asked but declared that Labda should bear another son who should be an important person.
I, priestessof this temple, offer up Prayers for the land.
Nay, no word, no word; I, priestess of this temple, offer up Prayers for the land.
Words like these, from Paula's lips, had for me the force of irresistible conviction, as the words of a consecrated priestess might have for her trusting worshippers.
Now as ever was Paula the good genius of the family, the honored priestess to whose keeping was committed the sacred flame of the hearth, the helper, the comforter, the adviser to whom each turned when he needed aid, consolation or counsel.
The priestess had with her the excrescence which is found upon the forehead of a new-cast foal, of the size of a dried fig, a talisman of great power.
To delude her sister as to her secret purpose she sends for a priestess from the gardens of the Hesperides, pretending that her object is to effect the return of her lover by means of certain magical incantations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priestess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
