bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
Example Sentences
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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 Bunnett, Fanny Elizabeth
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
Despised bondslave, since my lord doth hate These locks, why keep I them or hold them dear?
From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward
Do but say his horse stales with a good presence, and he's your bondslave.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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
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