clientage
Example Sentences
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.
From Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant
The instructors were Minim priests, and the life was as severe as it could be made with such a clientage under half-educated and inexperienced monks.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Vaudrey caused these urgent people, as well as some others, to be received by Warcolier, who asked nothing better than to make tools, to sow the seed of his clientage.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
To his practice in the State courts was united that in patent cases, which not only brought him a lucrative clientage, but largely increased his acquaintance with public men at Washington.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
