| Eventually, Roman slavery was transformed into serfdom, a form of servitude that mitigated some of the harsher features of the older system. |
| At first he didn't realise what the life sentence of penal servitude handed down by the judge had meant. |
| A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down. |
| A freed slave could be returned to servitude for helping a slave escape or for striking a white. |
| Those it has aided praise its efforts, saying it saved them from a lifetime of domestic abuse and virtual servitude. |
| Those who love to play the martyr submerge their own personalities. They devote a lifetime to unnecessary servitude and privation. |
