Scripture uses the position of a bondservant to describe the kind of obedience God desires. |
And if your brother be waxen poor with you, and sell himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a bondservant. |
The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit. |
I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. |
Poetry is for the whole of life and not a bondservant to teachers of ethics and religion. |
He sells himself as a bondservant to a planter and ship owner, Monsieur Beaunoir and his family in New Orleans. |