South African tribes the rich exert their power to subjugate the poor, who hang upon them in a kind of clientage, hoping to receive something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

A large clientage was considered the crown and glory of a patrician house.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

This sphere of influence was expanded by the practice of vassalage/clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

Lines of patronage and clientage were not as simple as the terms might indicate.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

In drinking saloons he lost his clientage and in penniless poverty he died -- unwept, unhonored, unsung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference

This means that the clientage system is very extensive in the country since so many are state-employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

The medium in which it is to be used and the clientage to which it is intended to appeal must also be constantly borne in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 11, November, 1895 The Country Houses of Normandy] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

A prosperous business year has enabled us to enlarge our offices and put in them an immense fireproof safe to protect our clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

I any speculative clientage, I was certain the operation would be successful provided they did not hold on for too large a profit and overstay the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance and Tragedy] Reference

On the other hand, you will find at the other extreme of intelligence, among your clientage of readers, those who are completely familiar with books and their uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

To the readers of THE BROCHURE SERIES this characteristic would doubtless appeal, while it might be of no value in an advertisement intended for a different clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 12, December 1895 English Country Houses] Reference

He had been quite unable to devote his customary labor to the benefit of his law partnership and the good of their clientage during the two years that he was Mayor of Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference

I had then got a considerable clientage of my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference

To mass it in a phrase, its clientage is the Human Race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science] Reference

For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unleavened Bread] Reference

Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

He had a large clientage, especially among that class of Irish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference

He is now in practice in San Francisco, and has a large clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State] Reference

Avenir Technologies prides itself in providing business solutions to an ever expanding clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

Virginia, he took up the study of law, and within a very few years he had gathered about him a profitable clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference

+ In South America we also meet with at least one case of a tribe, or part of a tribe, which is in clientage to another tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

Minim priests, and the life was as severe as it could be made with such a clientage under half-educated and inexperienced monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

The clever playwright who closes his last scene with a bitter parting is sure of a large clientage, composed almost wholly of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinster Book] Reference

Every family there has its clientage, its followers, who rally to its lead as quickly, and with almost as unreasoning a faith, as the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference

A sufficient clientage, spent in that manly emulation and honorable companionship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference

"I like the young, and whenever an occasion presents itself, I shall be happy to introduce you to my clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Derek Conway’s clientage system certainly seems to have been more ambitious in scope than is fashionable these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The oldest truth in political history] Reference

Nobody has ever had a more numerous or loving clientage of friendship among the ministers of this city than the author of "The.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs and Other Verse] Reference

In clientage of Greed, 90.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proletaria] Reference

But so he lost his clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)] Reference

Painters have their clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

Slaves in the civil wars; clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

I had a large clientage among the farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference

A large and paying clientage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

A good clientage, and some good employments.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference