bondslave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bondslave
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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
I did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
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 A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
"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
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