bondslave

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If I do offend, Pray you forgive the bondslave, for her tongue Is for her mistress.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

John Mackenzie, 2 schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

He who had chosen the broad, daylit, unencumbered paths of universal scepticism, found himself still the bondslave of honour.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"Yes," she continued, "I am the bondslave to people whose names I do not even know, who can control my every movement and action."

From Caught in the Net by Gaboriau, Émile

Modern society has declared itself on the side of necessity: while acknowledging man preeminently free in his relations to others, it yet considers him as the bondslave of motives.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various