bond servant

Example Sentences

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The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

John Mason, the former bond servant, still remained with him; and made a most efficient and trustworthy foreman.

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph

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

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