bond servant
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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
The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.
From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton
He was a bond servant; he was permitted to compound his servitude by a daily payment; he was allowed to work partly for himself and partly for the crown, at the same moment.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
If thy brother … be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
