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 Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding
But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night; Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light, Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
Whatever happened to me in the future, whether or no I was to labour as her bondslave for all my days, for that one moment I was her master.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
O glorious strength Put to the labour of a Beast, debas't Lower then bondslave!
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
Ippolit Sidoritch is eating a pear which Sanin has peeled for him, while Maria Nikolaevna watches him and smiles at him, her bondslave, that smile he knows already, the smile of the proprietor, the slave-owner….
From The Torrents of Spring by Garnett, Constance
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