bondslave

Example Sentences

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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

You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

Despised bondslave, since my lord doth hate   These locks, why keep I them or hold them dear?

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

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

A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes.

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)