Sentence examples for abject slave from inspiring English sources

An abject slave to money, he would starve his servant until he barely cast a shadow.

New York Society was very gaudy and glittering during the ten years that followed the Civil War, and the fashionable lady of the less conservative element was an even more abject slave to the beauty parlor and the cosmetic shop than is her modern prototype.

The New Yorker, July 8 , 1933P. 34 New York Society was very gaudy and glittering during the ten years that followed the Civil War, and the fashionable lady of the less conservative element was an even more abject slave to the beauty parlor and the cosmetic shop than is her modern prototype.

The author of modernist classic The Cantos added that "I have made it an Elizabethan sonnet because in that form alone is the thought governed with sufficient elegance of confection to be in fitting harmony with Mrs Konody, whose abject slave I subscribe my self herewith".

By Herbert Asbury The New Yorker, July 8 , 1933P. 34 New York Society was very gaudy and glittering during the ten years that followed the Civil War, and the fashionable lady of the less conservative element was an even more abject slave to the beauty parlor and the cosmetic shop than is her modern prototype.

"No tyrant or slave driver in the ecstasy of his more delirious dream ever sought to place upon abject slaves a condition more repugnant," said one labour leader. .

This offer Khosrow II contemptuously rejected, referring to himself as beloved by the gods and master of the world, to Heraclius as his abject and imbecilic slave, and to Christ as incapable of saving the empire.

While the paintings in "Muraqqa" are by many different artists, much of the text can be credited to the famed calligrapher Mir Ali of Herat, who often signed his works in abject fashion, "the sinful slave Mir Ali the scribe" or "the poor Ali".

He made one-man reenactments of master-slave relationships, practicing abject whining as an extreme sport.

'Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' Oliver Goldsmith, 1768 The troubadours of 11th century Languedoc invented something called Gai Saber, which used to be translated as "gay science", although "happy wisdom" is less confusing.

It perfectly reproduces the timeless languor of the original, it matches it in provocation, and in Mercier's assumption of the most abject characteristics of the Faun and the Golden Slave from Schéhérazade (another Diaghilev sex-ballet), pitches reverberant questions about the dominant-submissive relationship of performer and audience.