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bondwoman

[bond-woom-uhn] / ˈbɒndˌwʊm ən /


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The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015

In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.

From Time Magazine Archive

This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Because I was such a bondwoman, as I told you.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

At length, raising her head, she saw her attendant bondwoman standing at the distance of a few paces, with her hands crossed upon her breast.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Having heard the verdict of the doctor, Ali returned in hot haste and silenced both the bondwomen: "The Imam is a villain, and the Chacham is a thief."

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine

So swift had this change been that the bondwomen had not seen it, and they were shouting "Hallelujah!" with one voice, thinking only that she who had been dead to them was alive again.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine

"The milch-kine and the bondwomen of the booty he shall have, and for him to hold back his staff-sling from the hosts, for not pleasant is the thunder-feat he works every evening upon them."

From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn

Were I proved thrice a slave And waif of bondwomen, you still are noble.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

In the Douay it is, 'If a man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.'

From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh


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