bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
Example Sentences
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Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bondslave to poverty, driven and scourged.
From Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Yet she said with great composure: "My lord and husband does not reprove even a bondslave without a hearing, how much less then, his wedded wife?"
From Undine by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett
"Yes," she continued, "I am the bondslave to people whose names I do not even know, who can control my every movement and action."
From Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau
Have ruth on one distraught, the bondslave of your love, Sorry and sick and full of longings ever new.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
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