bond servant
Example Sentences
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The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Partly because of the nature of the vice-presidency, mostly because of the President's approach to subordinates, the once irrepressible Humphrey may have become a bond servant of Lyndon Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are rich, with position and friends of influence, while I at best am but a merchant skipper, in truth a bond servant, penniless and disgraced.
From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Parrish, Randall
The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.
From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton
Even the bond servant, according to St. Paul, is not to be deprived of his moral dignity, but is to be treated as under God a serving brother.
From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel
