bondslave

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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

I did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity.

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

A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes.

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)

Whatever happened to me in the future, whether or no I was to labour as her bondslave for all my days, for that one moment I was her master.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

He had once been a bondslave among Norsemen, and had known Olaf's father, King Triggvi, whom Olaf personally resembled.

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