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bondwoman

[bond-woom-uhn] / ˈbɒndˌwʊm ən /


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The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015

In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.

From Time Magazine Archive

This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Because I was such a bondwoman, as I told you.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

This Zabulon: when she sees Who is her rival, and her Lovers baseness To leave a Princess for her bondwoman, The sight will make her scorn, what now she dotes on, I'le double thy reward.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by Francis Beaumont

Then Ali ended suddenly his frantic dance, the bondwomen held their peace in an instant, and blank silence in the chamber followed the clamour of tongues.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine

So swift had this change been that the bondwomen had not seen it, and they were shouting "Hallelujah!" with one voice, thinking only that she who had been dead to them was alive again.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine

This is shown by the very words of the Law, where we read: "If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out."

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

This second class of servants were called bondmen and bondwomen.

From Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

"The milch-kine and the bondwomen of the booty he shall have, and for him to hold back his staff-sling from the hosts, for not pleasant is the thunder-feat he works every evening upon them."

From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn




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