bondman
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"Are you perfectly sure," asked Adalo, seizing the bondman by the shoulder and forcing him to turn his averted face, "that this horseman was the old Roman?"
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix
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)
Now, being over twenty-one I was my own bondman, and the bank couldn't collect from anybody but me—or the guarantee company.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
One who is absent wishes to free his bondman in the assembly.
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix
Judah came near to him, and said, O my Lord, let me abide a bondman instead of the lad.
From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis
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