bondslave

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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)

Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bondslave to poverty, driven and scourged.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding

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

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

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

She told me that she had been the bondslave, I think, for four or five years, of a certain besetting sin, and her first letter was the very utterance of despair.

From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Booth, Catherine Mumford