bondslave

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The angel of the better nature is bondslave to the worst.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Ah, for her doom! so cried in presage then The bodeful bondslave of the king of men, And might not win her will.

From Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Yet she said with great composure: "My lord and husband does not reprove even a bondslave without a hearing, how much less then, his wedded wife?"

From Undine by Bunnett, Fanny Elizabeth

I could not have waited for him all my life here, toiling ignominiously like a bondslave.

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore, Rabindranath

Every spark of Terran life has become victim and bondslave of the incredible mechanisms.

From The Demi-Urge by Disch, Thomas Michael