bondman
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Any agreement with a bondman led to a forfeiture of the lord's rights.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Instead it involved and assured for every bondman a full emancipation, and for every freeman full title forever to every unalienable right.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
Now, being over twenty-one I was my own bondman, and the bank couldn't collect from anybody but me—or the guarantee company.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
Sinson took very good care, in the disquietude of his suspicious temper, that his bondman should not be left in the way of temptation.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
If having no wife is to be free, you can hardly call him a bondman.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
In Canada, the bail system is largely predicated on community trust and connections and does not involve large cash deposits and commercial bail bondmen, as it does in many U.S. states.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
As was too often the case, a handful of nervous bondmen informed their masters of what was afoot.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
Retail bondmen complained of the small percentage of a security's selling price that they must work on.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the busiest underwriting week since 1929, bondmen offered $378 million of corporate and municipal bonds to an easy-money market that gulped the flotations and bid for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through its labors in the cause of human freedom the bondmen have become emancipated and assume equal rights with freemen.
From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous
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