bondslave

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Yet she said with great composure: "My lord and husband does not reprove even a bondslave without a hearing, how much less then, his wedded wife?"

From Undine by Bunnett, Fanny Elizabeth

Have ruth on one distraught, the bondslave of your love, Sorry      and sick and full of longings ever new.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bondslave to poverty, driven and scourged.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding

O glorious strength Put to the labour of a Beast, debas't Lower then bondslave!

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

Modern society has declared itself on the side of necessity: while acknowledging man preeminently free in his relations to others, it yet considers him as the bondslave of motives.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various