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Slave   /sleɪv/   Listen
Slave

noun
1.
A person who is owned by someone.
2.
Someone who works as hard as a slave.  Synonyms: hard worker, striver.
3.
Someone entirely dominated by some influence or person.  "A slave to cocaine" , "His mother was his abject slave"
verb
(past & past part. slaved; pres. part. slaving)
1.
Work very hard, like a slave.  Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down.



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"Slave" Quotes from Famous Books



... temperament, and those with temperament and no voice. God seldom gives both; if He does, it is the great artist that may be made. To be great one must have both. But even with both given, one must have the ability to work, to work like a galley-slave, to work when all the world is resting, at the dead of night, in the small hours of the morning. When all the others have let go, you must hold on, till your head is tired and your body aches and you faint by the wayside; ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane
... I have never been out of it. Why, I am in love even with Ann. But I am neither the slave of love nor its dupe. Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise. By Heaven, Tavy, if women could do without our work, and we ate their children's bread instead of making it, they would kill us ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... something curious. If there was ever a mean side to any question, old Mason was on it. My folks used to live around there, and I can remember when I was a boy hangin' around the bar-room nights hearin' him argue that colored folks had no souls; and along about the time the fugitive- slave law was passed the folks pootty near run him out o' town for puttin' the United States marshal on the scent of a fellow that was breakin' for Canada. Well, it was just so when the war come. It was known for a fact that he was in ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... white man bought some niggers, but dey didn't stay slave long, cause de Yankees came an' ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves - Virginia Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... to be cultivated in their own way, had to pay two and a half barrels of corn per acre and give thirty days' public service in every year; while the "Laborers," constituting the majority of the colony, had to slave eleven months, and were allowed only one month to raise corn to keep themselves supplied for a year. The inhabitants of Bermuda Hundred counted themselves more fortunate than the rest because they were promised their freedom in three years and were given ...
— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler


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