bondwoman
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The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015
In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.
From Time Magazine Archive
This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Is Wiltshire the pampered favorite, whilst Yorkshire, like the child of the bondwoman, is turned out to the desert?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
At length, raising her head, she saw her attendant bondwoman standing at the distance of a few paces, with her hands crossed upon her breast.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
This is shown by the very words of the Law, where we read: "If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out."
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Were I proved thrice a slave And waif of bondwomen, you still are noble.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
The sting of this imposition continued to rankle in my heart so long as we were the bondwomen of this particular man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
It was the voice of those who had been bondmen and bondwomen, and the grand diapason swept up from the coming ages.
From Luke Walton by Horatio Alger
We are sold for bondmen and bondwomen, and lie as hostages in taverns with no one to redeem us.
From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Ernest Chester Thomas
