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
If this becomes known they will make me a bondwoman for all my days.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, "Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
Even their bondwomen still spoke a foreign dialect, and commerce with them was mainly by signs.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir
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
Then Ali ended suddenly his frantic dance, the bondwomen held their peace in an instant, and blank silence in the chamber followed the clamour of tongues.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir
Under green apple-boughs That never a storm will rouse, My lady hath her house Between two bowers; In either of the twain Red roses full of rain; She hath for bondwomen All kind of flowers.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
In the Douay it is, 'If a man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.'
From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles
