Sentence examples for his servitude from inspiring English sources

If a slave wants none of the things that his servitude prevents him from having, is he free?

Thus, because the stole is a yoke around the neck of the priest and he should rejoice in his servitude, on donning or doffing it he kisses the emblem of his servile status.

Foley considers these far beneath his talents and would rather devote himself to creating a portfolio of cherub lamps that will enable him "before long to escape from his servitude to the pixies and the wheel of seasons, into prosperity and enhanced status".

These works were either inspired by devils and mischievous creatures or feature, as Ms. Cuckson told the audience, "strange and mysterious sound effects that make you wonder: how is that done?" According to Tartini, the Violin Sonata in G minor appeared to him in a dream in which the Devil offered his servitude in return for Tartini's soul and then played the violin with dazzling mastery.

It is no surprise that as soon as his servitude ends, Esau appears on the horizon, waiting to be reckoned with.

To be sure, their work load is not as relentless as that of a galley slave who was chained to his bench for the length of his servitude, rowed for up to 20 hours a day, was whipped incessantly and fed vanishingly small rations.

But what Toro really wants is a permanent resolution to his immigration problems and an end to his DEA servitude.

He's a guy who's resigned to his indentured servitude of being alive.

His punishment — servitude for life — was harsher than what the white servants received, and it has led some historians to regard him as the first African to be legally sanctioned as a slave, years before Virginia adopted laws allowing slavery.

Especially in recalling the college days that preceded his indentured servitude, Milo captures the fin de siècle mood well: "The privileged of our generation did what they could, like the rest of us.

After his indentured servitude at HP — which lasted the five years it took the company to come through with the promised green card — Grisha quit and promptly got himself hired for twice as much, as a quant at Morgan Stanley, building market models for mortgage traders.