clientage

Example Sentences

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

He had a large clientage, especially among that class of Irish Americans who were apt in Massachusetts to vote with the Democratic Party.

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)

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

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