With regard to the question of servitude under the Crown, the position of a slave seems to be that he cannot change his master, and his master cannot discharge or sell him, except under certain restrictions.
The letter you have written was received with the utmost joy for it was to us not only a message of love and unity but a message of humble devotion and servitude at the divine Threshold.
But the Centre of Thy complete and flawless Covenant, He Who occupies the seat of servitude to Thee in Thine exalted and all-glorious Cause, had written by Thy will and Thy power a Book that shall never be lost nor ever forgotten.
Rather did she redouble her efforts, urging herself on the more, to servitude and sacrifice.
Indeed, you have adorned yourself with the qualifications of faithfulness and are striving to fulfil the requirements of servitude to the Abhá Threshold.
All this is out of the grace and favour of our Beloved, the All-Glorious, and the loving-kindness of Him from the splendours of Whose servitude earth and heaven were illumined.
Then came the era of the Covenant, and that full cup was passed from hand to hand, and the Sun of the Covenant rose up, shedding abroad on the horizon of unity the rays of servitude and thraldom, and lighting up the hearts of humankind.
Some kind of servitude was needful, and if her uncle was decided that she must be banished from his house, the kind of servitude which was proposed to her at Basle would do as well as another.
Equidem ego is sum, qui servitutem extremum omnium malorum esse arbitror: I am he (saith Boterus) that account servitude the extremity of misery.
Not unfrequently these poor creatures avoid their term of servitude by suicide.
It was not a rare occurrence for a freeman to voluntarily subject himself to servitude in payment of a gambling-debt; nor for a slave to be adopted into the tribe, and the privilege of head-flattening accorded to his offspring.
In the delusion of your hearts ye thought To plunge in servitude the freeborn French, And to attach their fair and goodly realm, Like a small boat, to your proud English bark!
This union was made under the authority of an arbitrary grant of Pope Adrian, in order that the Church of Ireland should be reduced to the same servitude with those that were nearer to his see.
The word Protestant is the charm that looks up in the dungeon of servitude three millions of your people.
Nevertheless the system of white servitude was not entirely abolished until long after the close of the eighteenth century, immigrants to this country frequently selling themselves as "redemptioners" to pay the cost of their passage.
Servitude and clanship are there connected, instead of servitude and conquest.
Theonomy is not heteronomy but the highest autonomy, the guarantee of our personal freedom against all servitude of man.
Or who will hear your friends when they attempt to show that this is not an open servitude on the one hand and tyranny on the other?
In the mean time the Britons, taking advantage of his absence, resolved, by a general insurrection, to free themselves from that state of abjectservitude to which they were reduced by the Romans.
Thus Paqueta lived, and breathed, and was happy during two whole years under my eyes, when a great change came over her life, and she put off the bonds of servitude never to resume them more.
And who can discover a trace of her former servitude about her!
Such was the atmosphere which Paqueta now breathed, and I sometimes thought that, for her soul’s health, it was no better than the servitude from which she had escaped.
It was not however until the trial had finished and the pair of miserable men had been sent to penal servitude for a lengthy term of years, that I made the acquaintance of the men I have just described.
It may have been that I was a little sad that afternoon, for both the men who had been condemned to penal servitude had wives and children, to whose pitiful condition the learned Judge had referred when passing sentence.
If tried under the Defense of the Realm act the maximum punishment is penal servitude for life; but if dealt with outside that act as a war crime the punishment of death can be inflicted.
Does any high-minded christian nation chain her prisoners of war, and subject them and their posterity to perpetual ignorance, and the oppressive toil of involuntary servitude without reward?
It is literally encircled with truths of liberty, in a servitude which is perfect freedom; with truths of power and joy, in a life which is by the Holy Ghost.
Such is his particular department of servitude in the "great house.
Therefore, with increasing frequency the system of indentured servitude was used whereby the immigrant agreed to an indenture or contract to work a certain number of years as additional payment for his transportation.
He was the embodiment of “Keep all my words of prayer and praise confined to one refrain; make all my life but servitude to Thee.
Day by day, the youth’s servitudeand devotion increased.
In consequence of this system, personal servitudewas almost entirely abolished under Philippe de Long, brother of Louis X.
Servitude was in fact to be found in all conditions and ranks, equally in the palace of the sovereign as in the dwellings of his subjects.
As early as the fourteenth century, serfdom orservitude no longer existed except in "mortmain," of which we still have to speak.
Its possession then formed the basis of social position, and, as a consequence, individual servitude became lessened, and society assumed a more stable condition.
Before the arrival of this fatal vessel life-servitude was unknown.
Yet, wretched and abused as these women were, they seemed content with their lot, and when their husbands died, they not only mourned for them, but seemed quite ready to enter the same servitude with a new master.
And there are few minds, entirely free from associations which make servitude a degradation.
Abhorrence ofServitude a National Trait of Character.
Perhaps callest thou liberty the power to do good, and servitude the being prevented from it by obstacles.
As to the servitude of animals and the labor we impose on them, its justification lies first in the principle of legitimate self-defense, to which we have just now alluded.
All these matters were left to the states, and the legislatures of some of them, by their famous "black codes," restored a form of servitude under the guise of vagrancy and apprentice laws.
It made a form of tenantry or servitude inevitable for the mass of those who labored on the land.
At the same time there was drawn westward through the rest of the Louisiana territory a line separating servitude from slavery.
When their weary years of servitude were over, if they survived, they might obtain land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns.
To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.
They likewise differed from the negro slaves in that their servitude had a time limit.
For many a bondman the gamble proved to be a losing venture because he found himself unable to rise out of the state of poverty and dependence into which his servitude carried him.
Sons and daughters of German farmers in Pennsylvania and many a redemptioner who had discharged his bond of servitude pressed out into Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, or beyond.
British sea captains, sometimes by mistake, and often enough with reckless indifference, carried away into servitudein their own navy genuine American citizens.
A few thus dragged off to the New World to be sold into servitude for a term of five or seven years later became prosperous and returned home with fortunes.
Their declaration that neither the law nor its administration should admit any discrimination in respect of citizens by reason of race, color, or previous condition of servitude appealed to idealists and brought results in elections.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "servitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
