"Now, we must set the table," said Anne, in the tone of a priestess about to perform some sacred rite in honor of a divinity.
He was not completely conscious--and for a second she looked like a high priestess of the Amazon, holding two mummified heads before her--
Next morning the Delphic priestess discovered the infant, and was so charmed by his engaging appearance that she adopted him as her own son.
and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms
Ion was about to avenge himself upon Creusa, when, by means of the divine intervention of Apollo, his foster-mother, the Delphic priestess appeared on the scene, and explained the true relationship which existed between Creusa and Ion.