simple bond
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They were held together by the simple bond of an arbitrary monarch, who claimed, and exercised as he could, supreme control over them all.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
Almost with horror he found himself asking the next instant whether the simple bond of blood was worth all that he had given—worth his youth, his manhood, his ambition?
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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