bondslave

Example Sentences

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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

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

Every spark of Terran life has become victim and bondslave of the incredible mechanisms.

From The Demi-Urge by Disch, Thomas Michael

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

She told me that she had been the bondslave, I think, for four or five years, of a certain besetting sin, and her first letter was the very utterance of despair.

From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Booth, Catherine Mumford