bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Modern society has declared itself on the side of necessity: while acknowledging man preeminently free in his relations to others, it yet considers him as the bondslave of motives.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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)
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