bondwoman
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The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015
In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.
From Time Magazine Archive
This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for 'Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
From Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for "marmar," as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Alcott, Louisa May
Under green apple-boughs That never a storm will rouse, My lady hath her house Between two bowers; In either of the twain Red roses full of rain; She hath for bondwomen All kind of flowers.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Ali was saying, "Father, those dogs and thieves of tentmen and muleteers returned yesterday, and said—" And the bondwomen were crying, "Sidi, you were right when you went away!"
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir
Ask them if they want the host across the river to think them turned into a herd of weeping bondwomen.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
At her side walked one of her bondwomen, and, at a pace or two behind, properly attired, and armed only with a short sword, strode the armor bearer.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
"The milch-kine and the bondwomen of the booty he shall have, and for him to hold back his staff-sling from the hosts, for not pleasant is the thunder-feat he works every evening upon them."
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Dunn, Joseph
