thralldom

But the problem with Baucus goes beyond his thralldom to special interests.

"We are two birds who have escaped thralldom and are taking our first flight into our natural ether," cried Miss Stuyvesant gaily.

His was the old story of the total subjection of moral power and thralldom to evil habits and associates.

No circumstance ever made me feel so strongly the thralldom of Mr. Wayles's debt.