thralls

“By day, Southwark Manor appears deserted, except for those you call thralls, and they are in a greatly subdued state, almost quiescent as it were, neither moving nor taking note of anything that goes on around them.”

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

“By day, Southwark Manor appears deserted, except for those you call thralls, and they are in a greatly subdued state, almost quiescent as it were, neither moving nor taking note of anything that goes on around them.”

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

And Pentheus hied this way and that, and called his thralls amain

Hippolytus/The Bacchae 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

While the thralls were at work, the men stood together and talked.

Viking Tales 1902

Then, returning home, they made slaves or "thralls" of their prisoners, often married the women, and spent the winter in the enjoyment of their plunder.

Erling the Bold 1859

Talbot was just as bad as the damn thralls, spelling everything out like textspeak was below him.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

She stood in the door, staring down at the other thralls with vague disapproval at the way they fawned over me.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

She might be less jealous of Bea than any of my other thralls, but she pays attention to stuff like kissing.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

Me and the three-year-old watch Pooh cartoons, Pooh in the thralls of honey obsession, and the three-year-old's mom says, “You know what honey is in a Blues song?”

Selected Tweets (June – November 2011), Edited and in Near Chronologic Order John Minichillo 2011

Daddy tends to take beautiful women who want to sleep with him, make them thralls, and then refuse to sleep with them.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011