bondslave

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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

You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

"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

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

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