bondslave

Example Sentences

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I could not have waited for him all my life here, toiling ignominiously like a bondslave.

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore, Rabindranath

Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bondslave to poverty, driven and scourged.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding

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)

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

I did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry