bondslave

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A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes.

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)

She told me that she had been the bondslave, I think, for four or five years, of a certain besetting sin, and her first letter was the very utterance of despair.

From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Booth, Catherine Mumford

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

I could not have waited for him all my life here, toiling ignominiously like a bondslave.

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore, Rabindranath

He who had chosen the broad, daylit, unencumbered paths of universal scepticism, found himself still the bondslave of honour.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis