bondslave
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But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night; Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light, Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook
PHW #28 228 “O bondslave of the world! ... returned whence it came.”
From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh
Ippolit Sidoritch is eating a pear which Sanin has peeled for him, while Maria Nikolaevna watches him and smiles at him, her bondslave, that smile he knows already, the smile of the proprietor, the slave-owner….
From The Torrents of Spring by Constance Garnett
