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Meanings of bondmaid in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bondwoman"
Examples for "bondwoman"
1
For the present she was free, to-morrow she might be a bondwoman.
2
Einar remembered her, for she had been his bondwoman for two summers.
3
With the permission of Sarah, Abraham took Hagar, Sarah's bondwoman, to wife.
4
Nevertheless what saith the scripture: Cast a way the bondwoman and her son.
5
Even these will be cast out, because they are children of the bondwoman.
1
His probation officer couldn't find him and the bondswoman was getting nervous.
2
And though I was free, and not a bondswoman, he broke upon my sleep.
3
A free woman, thou shalt be my friend and thy daughter shall be thy happy bondswoman.
4
I worked for years as bondswoman to the Lady of the Manor, minding her children till they came of age.
5
O bondswoman of God!
Usage of bondmaid in English
1
The bondmaid will go ere she is driven out.
2
The bondmaid screamed at the sight of them, and threw up an arm to shield herself.
3
Now are you as womanish as your bondmaid.
4
The lodgings were taken furnished, and a bondmaid of the house did such work as was indispensable.
5
The cazi, no less enamoured, says that the woman is his bondmaid, who had absconded with much money.
6
He pronounced the decree, and laid upon the bondmaid, and not upon his noble boy, the provision for the journey.
7
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.
8
The only word Dr Murray ever conceded had been overlooked was "bondmaid", meaning a girl bound to serve without wages.
9
Then a wife you shall be, my honey, though a friend or a bondmaid is equally good Scripture, to say nothing of simplicity.
10
Bondmen and bondmaids might be bought of the heathen round about them.
11
Rolf said with a shrug: It is bondmaids' gabble.
12
Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.
13
"You are queens and bondmaids too, as royal when you serve as when you rule."
14
"I dislike to see brave men disgrace their beards with bondmaids' gabble," he said sternly.
15
I waited till they were all still, and then I crept into the women's room, and found the bondmaids huddled in their beds.