bondslave

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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

You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

"Yes," she continued, "I am the bondslave to people whose names I do not even know, who can control my every movement and action."

From Caught in the Net by Gaboriau, Émile

That is not all: you actually avail yourself of a disgraceful trick to entrap this unfortunate girl into an agreement, whereby she becomes a literary bondslave for five years!

From Mr. Meeson's Will by Haggard, Henry Rider

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