priestess
Speech parts
1. priestess - Noun
2. priestess - Verb
Meaning
A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.
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Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, called the converts the excrement of the clan, and the new faith was a mad dog that had come to eat it up.
I needed love no words could say; She drew me softly nigh her chair, My head upon her knees to lay, With cool hands that caressed my hair. She sat with hands as if to bless, And looked with grave, ethereal eyes; Ensouled by ancient quietness, A gentle priestess of the Wise.
Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Polyxo, the priestess beloved of Phoebus.
A faithful priestess and an engineer who share the same vision of sparkling particules on Earth meet on Mars as civilization faces total collapse.