bondswoman
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But the family still hadn’t had enough to cover Brittany’s bond, so Ramona had given a bondswoman the titles to her cars and her mother’s wedding rings as collateral.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
I promised to marry her to my man Scipione as soon as possible, since protection of some sort was necessary to a bondswoman who had run away from the land to which she belonged.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
To no son of Dermid shall I be delivered, to be fed like a bondswoman; but he who is my pleasure and my pride shall be my guard and my protector.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
Shame! shame that this should be! that she should have mistaken vile schemes for love, that a liar's kisses should have polluted her soul! that she should be the wife, the bondswoman of a cheat!
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Olaf answered promptly, as he looked calmly into his master's face: "My mother is a poor bondswoman, hersir," he said.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
I possessed that which never King possessed and was righteous in my rule and did justice among my lieges; yea, I gave gifts and largesse and freed bondsmen and bondswomen.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Time seemed to soften the hearts of master and mistress, and to insure kinder and more humane treatment to bondsmen and bondswomen.
From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
This peace I establish on behoof of us, and of our kin, friends, and men of affinity, women even as men, bondswomen, even as bonds-men, swains and men of estate.
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
They had seen many bondswomen who were fair, they said, and how could they tell that any one of them was she whom the young hersir was now seeking?
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
Morag was taken to the Stone House by strong-armed bondswomen, and Baun and Deelish sat in corners and cried and did not go near her.
From The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum
