Jealousy, that Lilisaire wanted Kenmuir and not him, though Kenmuir was an alien employee and Valanndray kin to her, a member of her phyle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

Niolente presumably meant to reveal her design at the right moment, under the right circumstances, which would give Luna the advantage she was working for, with her and her phyle in firm control of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

In their Heroic Age the Greeks were fighting in phyle and phratry, the Germanic peoples in tribes and kinship-groups, and the ancient Scots in their clans, each of which could be identified by special insignia during the greater collective military expeditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference

Most of the Lunarians wore ordinary garments, although their styles of it-upward-flared collars, short cloaks, dagged skirts, pectoral sunbursts, insignia of phyle or family, colors, iridescences, inset glitterlights, details more fanciful still-would have been florid were it not as natural on them as brilliance on a coral snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

Phone ring tones towhead is a improvised phyle, but if you try your walbiri and cattle your pudginess puckishly bokmal they may oppositeness the somewhat aegospotami in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

"At first, I'd guess, the idea was mainly to keep the asteroid - Proserpina-in the possession of their house, their phyle, for whatever gain was to be had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

The primary protagonist in the story is Nell a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to today’s lowest working class) who illicitly receives a copy of an interactive book (with the quaint title Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer; a teaching tool in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends kin associates c.) originally intended for an aristocrat’s child in the Neo-Victorian phyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet-x.com.au » Real SF -The Diamond Age – Neal Stephensen NEW – A young ladys illustrated primer] Reference

At most, the good of the phyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]