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1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 27 Dec. in Coll. Lett. (2000) I. 291 Is Paean the God of Poetry?—I think, that the ancients religiously confined the name to Apollo in his capacity of Healer & Python-killer.

1841 E. B. Lytton Night & Morning II. iv. i. 302 One that might have haunted the nymphs of Delos; the face of Apollo..not the Python-slayer, but the young dreamer by shady places.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 168 As Python-slayer of the present age.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 146 The great muscular python-stretch of her tail.

1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice ii. 26 He and Nyali had had python-steak for supper.

1988 L. Blair Ring of Fire (BNC) 104 Following our python-hunters, who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic..we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor.