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It is not analogous to the case of the predial slaves, or slaves glebae adscripti of Russia, or Hungary, or other states.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

But neither feudalism nor slavery, in the old pagan sense of the word, nor even serfdom, properly so called, as the doom of the ascripti glebae, ever existed in Ireland.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

The whole world seemed to be morally, as well as materially, "adscripti glebae."

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And thus indeed you shall attain to Virgil's character which he gives to ancient Italy: Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

He ordained, therefore, that they should be attached to the plantations, and made, though free labourers, a sort of adscripti glebae for five years.

From Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Clarkson, Thomas