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And as the flames sprang up, and Elgiva sang her death-song, and the thralls and slaves screeched their unwillingness to die, I tore away my fastenings, leaped, and gained the fens, the gold collar of my slavehood still on my neck, footing it with the hounds loosed to tear me down.
Chapter 17 2010
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The universe had no need, and no place, for being trapped forever between slavehood and freedom.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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In him are still the tendencies of his hereditary paganism, the vices of his slavehood.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 4, April, 1896 Various
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And as the flames sprang up, and Elgiva sang her death song, and the thralls and slaves screamed their unwillingness to die, I tore away my fastenings, leaped, and gained the fens, the gold collar of my slavehood still on my neck, footing it with the hounds loosed to tear me down.
Chapter 17 1915
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And as the flames sprang up, and Elgiva sang her death-song, and the thralls and slaves screeched their unwillingness to die, I tore away my fastenings, leaped, and gained the fens, the gold collar of my slavehood still on my neck, footing it with the hounds loosed to tear me down.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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It seems she has completely forgotten the contract, my slavehood.
Venus in Furs Leopold Sacher-Masoch 1865
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Nature, when her scorn of a slave is divinest, and blazes like the blinding lightning against his slavehood, often enough flings him a bag of money, silently saying: "That!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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