bondwoman
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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
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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
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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 or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
From The Harp of God by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
"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
The institution of villeinage is last mentioned in a commission of Queen Elizabeth, 1574, directing Lord Burleigh and others in certain counties to compound with all such bondmen or bondwomen for their manumission and freedom.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
The sting of this imposition continued to rankle in my heart so long as we were the bondwomen of this particular man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
So he awarded to Socht the price of seven bondwomen as blood-fine for the slaying of Angus, and restitution of the sword to Socht.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
Even their bondwomen still spoke a foreign dialect, and commerce with them was mainly by signs.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine