Sample Sentences for
bondservant
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    After all, that's how my poor son found himself being a bondservant to Mimir.†  (source)
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    The first of Will's family to set foot on Georgia soil might even have been one of Oglethorpe's debtors or a bond servant.†  (source)
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    Nay, father, am not I, because I am thy child, his bond-servant?†  (source)
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    He told me she was bond-servant forever; but if she wished, he would set her free that I might be gratified.†  (source)
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    The Pyncheons, if all stories were true, haughtily as they bore themselves in the noonday streets of their native town, were no better than bond-servants to these plebeian Maules, on entering the topsy-turvy commonwealth of sleep.†  (source)
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    It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.  (source)
    bond-servant = indentured servant
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    My father and mother were Hebrew bond-servants, tenders of the fig and olive trees growing, with many vines, in the King's Garden hard by Siloam; and in my boyhood I helped them.†  (source)
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    "Yea, forsooth," replied the bond-servant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a new-comer in the country, he had never before seen.  (source)
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    "Nevertheless, I will enter," answered Hester Prynne; and the bond-servant, perhaps judging from the decision of her air, and the glittering symbol in her bosom, that she was a great lady in the land, offered no opposition.  (source)
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