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

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

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)

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

If I do offend, Pray you forgive the bondslave, for her tongue Is for her mistress.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean