bondslave

Example Sentences

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You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

John Mackenzie, 2 schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

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

Whatever happened to me in the future, whether or no I was to labour as her bondslave for all my days, for that one moment I was her master.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night;   Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light,   Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard