bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
Example Sentences
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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 Payne, John
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
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 Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding
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
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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