clientage

Example Sentences

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

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 Sloane, William Milligan

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)

I had a large clientage among the farmers.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie