bondslave

Example Sentences

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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

Semifonte had been told of his bondslave, and Palamone's hour of triumph was at hand.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Ippolit Sidoritch is eating a pear which Sanin has peeled for him, while Maria Nikolaevna watches him and smiles at him, her bondslave, that smile he knows already, the smile of the proprietor, the slave-owner….

From The Torrents of Spring by Garnett, Constance

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)

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

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis