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Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

At first he'd been a little standoffish—as if he were a lord and I were a serf, Jones thought—until he'd seen how the skipper treated him.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
In the feudal society of the Middle Ages, it was between feudal lord and serf; later on, between aristocrat and citizen.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
They knew the stories of abandoned trains, of the crews that vanished in sudden bursts of rebellion against serfdom.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
I had a serf, Filka; just after his burial I called out forgetting 'Filka, my pipe!'
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
The Templar, a serf in all but the name, can possess neither lands nor goods, and lives, moves, and breathes, but at the will and pleasure of another.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
JOCASTA A serf, the sole survivor who returned.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
The rapier stars glinted upon his serfdom: dawn reddened on release.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He had begun to set a value on heads, shoulders and arms—their owners' value, even if the owner was a serf.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
She was a serf, but had received a European education.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
Whatever it was called-feudalism and serfdom or capitalism and industrial workers, it was unnatural and unjust.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
They had cut the whole of the big meadow, which had, in the years of serf labor, taken thirty scythes two days to mow.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
It was in the darkest days of serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of the People!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Pressed us to her with the serf' ous way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.
Alice Walker -- Everyday Use
The drawers he wore were baggy and dirty and he did indeed look like some sad and ill used serf or worse.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
The change in her, the growing old, the revelation and responsibility of serf, as a woman, made this experience appear to have extended over months.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
The disappointment and impatience of the Negroes at the persistence of slavery and serfdom voiced itself in two movements.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Once one has owned land, there is no going back to being a serf.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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