bond servant
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Partly because of the nature of the vice-presidency, mostly because of the President's approach to subordinates, the once irrepressible Humphrey may have become a bond servant of Lyndon Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are rich, with position and friends of influence, while I at best am but a merchant skipper, in truth a bond servant, penniless and disgraced.
From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Parrish, Randall
The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
If thy brother … be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
