bondslave

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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)

The angel of the better nature is bondslave to the worst.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Despised bondslave, since my lord doth hate   These locks, why keep I them or hold them dear?

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

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