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

PHW #28 228 “O bondslave of the world! ... returned whence it came.”

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

Ah, for her doom! so cried in presage then The bodeful bondslave of the king of men, And might not win her will.

From Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

He had once been a bondslave among Norsemen, and had known Olaf's father, King Triggvi, whom Olaf personally resembled.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

"Yes," she continued, "I am the bondslave to people whose names I do not even know, who can control my every movement and action."

From Caught in the Net by Gaboriau, Émile