bondman

Example Sentences

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Even comfortable circumstances, which he apparently enjoyed, created in the Malmesbury bondman no satisfaction with his lot.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

The scriptural Joseph had been sold as a bondman into Egypt; this little Joseph seemed to have been brought into the world to be a slave.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Fiercely agitated by such thoughts, he sent the bondman, who was crouching beside the fire, to the tent.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix

Instead it involved and assured for every bondman a full emancipation, and for every freeman full title forever to every unalienable right.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

"Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide as a bondman, instead of the lad."

From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Lobingier, Elizabeth Erwin Miller