| A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down. |
| Those it has aided praise its efforts, saying it saved them from a lifetime of domestic abuse and virtual servitude. |
| Those who love to play the martyr submerge their own personalities. They devote a lifetime to unnecessary servitude and privation. |
| Tens of millions of human souls were transported from their homes in Africa under appalling conditions to lives of servitude in the Americas. |
| Eventually, the young monk must choose between love and desire and religious servitude. |
| A freed slave could be returned to servitude for helping a slave escape or for striking a white. |
