bondman

Example Sentences

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Even comfortable circumstances, which he apparently enjoyed, created in the Malmesbury bondman no satisfaction with his lot.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

He has been so long a bondman, the irons have cut so deeply into his flesh, that on first coming out into God's good light he staggers blindly as one drunk.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Instead it involved and assured for every bondman a full emancipation, and for every freeman full title forever to every unalienable right.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

But brutes are more loyal than human beings: often, very often, Bruna seeks my little maid and Zercho the bondman.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix

His bondman rose from the ground in a fury not to be described.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy