Sentence examples for bondswoman from inspiring English sources
noun
The female equivalent of a bondsman.
8 P.M. (ABC) ONCE UPON A TIME Emma Swan Jennifer Morrisonn), a 28-year-old bail bondswoman who has been on her own since she was abandoned as a baby, is reunited with Henry (Jared Gilmore), the son she gave up years ago -- and who now, at 10, is desperately in need of his mother's help.
Ms. Morrison is the action heroine, a bail bondswoman with no knowledge of her royal parentage who is dragged to Storybrooke by her own young son, Henry (Jared Gilmore of "Mad Men," a little too adorable).
This was followed by the title roles in the comedy The Bishop's Wife (1947) and as the 1820 bondswoman in Rachel And The Stranger (1948).
The Bondswoman's Narrative published in 2002 but written in the mid-1850s, apparently by an African American woman who signed herself Hannah Crafts purports to be the autobiography of a fugitive slave from North Carolina.
By Hannah Crafts Excerpt from "The Bondswoman's Narrative," by Hannah Crafts..
The war was now a contest not just about saving the Union but also about freeing four million bondsmen and bondswomen.
With the address of the fugitive's girlfriend, the bondswomen dig in for a stakeout.
Although three bondswomen (one Native American, one African and one "a bit mongrelized") help run his farm, he refuses to traffic in slaves; the mother of the African girl, in fact, has forced her daughter on him because the girl is in danger of falling into worse hands and he seems "human".
