bondslave

Example Sentences

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The angel of the better nature is bondslave to the worst.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Every spark of Terran life has become victim and bondslave of the incredible mechanisms.

From The Demi-Urge by Disch, Thomas Michael

John Mackenzie, 2 schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes.

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)