bondslave

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He had once been a bondslave among Norsemen, and had known Olaf's father, King Triggvi, whom Olaf personally resembled.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

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 did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity.

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

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

But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night;   Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light,   Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard