A serf,
villein, or slave. As far as "professions" go, the worst.
"To Sleep I give my powers away;
My will is bondsman to
the dark."
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850).
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- Richard Voorhees
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As a manager at a bail bonds company in Las Vegas, I never actually considered the term, "bondsman" in such a way. Enlightening.
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