clientage
Example Sentences
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
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
I can conceive of no life more delightful than that of a lawyer in good health, and with good capacity, and with a sufficient clientage, spent in that manly emulation and honorable companionship.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
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)
Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham