clientage

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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

It would be absurd for him now to furbish up the rusty weapons of the law and enter again upon the tedious labor of collecting a clientage.

From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Their united clientage included the investors of Great Britain and the Continent, and a popular loan could not be effected without their aid and co-operation.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

I did succeed, in a way, from the beginning, and was not without a good clientage, and some good employments.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

He was admitted to practice, and with it he rose rapidly both in knowledge of the common law and in securing a paying clientage.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace