bondslave

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PHW #28 228 “O bondslave of the world! ... returned whence it came.”

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

She amuses herself––poor little bondslave, who has only changed masters!

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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)

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

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