bondswoman

Example Sentences

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But the family still hadn’t had enough to cover Brittany’s bond, so Ramona had given a bondswoman the titles to her cars and her mother’s wedding rings as collateral.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

I promised to marry her to my man Scipione as soon as possible, since protection of some sort was necessary to a bondswoman who had run away from the land to which she belonged.

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

The trader said this was to express her gratitude—the empty shell and small fish signifying poverty, while the gift of hair denoted that she was a bondswoman to me for life.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf

Olaf answered promptly, as he looked calmly into his master's face: "My mother is a poor bondswoman, hersir," he said.

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

To no son of Dermid shall I be delivered, to be fed like a bondswoman; but he who is my pleasure and my pride shall be my guard and my protector.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir