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
He was a bond servant; he was permitted to compound his servitude by a daily payment; he was allowed to work partly for himself and partly for the crown, at the same moment.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
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
