bondslave

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Semifonte had been told of his bondslave, and Palamone's hour of triumph was at hand.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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

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

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

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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