bondslave

Example Sentences

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Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

The angel of the better nature is bondslave to the worst.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

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

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