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
The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.
From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton
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
To me, and my father and mother and Ephraim, thee is no bond servant of Marmaduke Haward.
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
