bondman

Example Sentences

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He has been so long a bondman, the irons have cut so deeply into his flesh, that on first coming out into God's good light he staggers blindly as one drunk.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

The scriptural Joseph had been sold as a bondman into Egypt; this little Joseph seemed to have been brought into the world to be a slave.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

But brutes are more loyal than human beings: often, very often, Bruna seeks my little maid and Zercho the bondman.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix

And now Michael determined, if possible, to make Everope his bondman.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

Even comfortable circumstances, which he apparently enjoyed, created in the Malmesbury bondman no satisfaction with his lot.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.