bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
Example Sentences
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Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
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
He who had chosen the broad, daylit, unencumbered paths of universal scepticism, found himself still the bondslave of honour.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
If I do offend, Pray you forgive the bondslave, for her tongue Is for her mistress.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean
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