clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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 Roberts, Henri

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

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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