bondservantin a sentence
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Some people refer to an indentured servant as a bondservant. Others do not because the indentured servant had a limited number of years they must work without pay.
bondservant = someone bound to serve another without pay -- often for their entire life
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Sarah urged Abraham to send the bondservant Hagar and her son away.
bondservant = slave
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Lifting the iron hammer that hung at the portal, Hester Prynne gave a summons, which was answered by one of the Governor's bond servants—a free-born Englishman, but now a seven years' slave.
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bond servants = indentured servant
- After all, that's how my poor son found himself being a bondservant to Mimir."† (source)
- 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)
- "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)
- "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)
- 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)
- Nay, father, am not I, because I am thy child, his bond-servant?† (source)
- 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)
- He told me she was bond-servant forever; but if she wished, he would set her free that I might be gratified.† (source)
- 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)