bondman
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A fire was indeed coming—was already kindled—which was to set the bondman free: and God was in the fire.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
Then the King caused the man whom he had found asleep to be brought forward, and he proved to be a bondman.
From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw
One who is absent wishes to free his bondman in the assembly.
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn
No, my pretty one, I have never been a bondman; and, what is more, I never shall.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
Sinson took very good care, in the disquietude of his suspicious temper, that his bondman should not be left in the way of temptation.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
In Canada, the bail system is largely predicated on community trust and connections and does not involve large cash deposits and commercial bail bondmen, as it does in many U.S. states.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
As was too often the case, a handful of nervous bondmen informed their masters of what was afoot.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
Retail bondmen complained of the small percentage of a security's selling price that they must work on.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the busiest underwriting week since 1929, bondmen offered $378 million of corporate and municipal bonds to an easy-money market that gulped the flotations and bid for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
It remains therefore that it imitated the life of subjects, of bondmen, such as existed as a separate class in the Doric states, and accordingly bucolic poems are commonly in the Doric dialect.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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