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 Lovelace, Richard

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

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

Now for the first time he realized that during all that past time, when he had been living as a poor and wretched bondslave in Esthonia, he had held this glorious birthright.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

She amuses herself––poor little bondslave, who has only changed masters!

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis