“He's always out with his little clan of jocks, anyways.”

“In addition, nearly every Rajput clan has its own patron god to whom it turns for protection.”

“But the strong tradition of upholding the clan makes for mutual support and a sharing and egalitarian instinct.”

“Especially in the province of Moray, there were also feudal groups which adopted clanship.”

“It is one short step from parochial affiliations to local mafias that rely on clanship, clientalism, and identity politics.”

“A strong sense of clanship pervaded these villages, making men from other clans feel like interlopers.”

“It's just as hard to penetrate the clannishness of islanders who've lived and played apart from the world for generations.”

“Finnish Americans soon developed a reputation for clannishness and hard work.”

“This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.”

“Polka-dot make-up, scarification done in tribal designs, and pig grease enhance the appeal of a Minj clanswoman.”

“Her interest in the matter seems to have been merely that of a connection, or, at most, a clanswoman.”

“However, it is clear that, if his daughter becomes a clanswoman, then he can no longer maintain this aloofness towards the clan.”

“Local clansman living near the city burned down some of the workers' houses.”

“Last time he was Lord Mayor, Allan Watson was defiantly piped out of Melbourne Town Hall by a clansman in a kilt.”

“In the meantime, they were available to help their clansman Javed Ibrahim in his election campaign.”

“One of the clanswomen suggested they should send to Meroway for infantry, but the others hooted and shouted her down.”

“The leading clanswomen decided prisoners' fates, sometimes basing their decision on the manner in which a relative of theirs had been killed.”

“Clansmen and clanswomen let out war whoops as they descend onto the soccer field or baseball diamond.”

“At Appin, he attempted to replace his old clan rivals, the Stewarts, with his own clansmen.”

“Many Highland chiefs and clansmen, who did battle for the Stuart cause, paid for their loyalty with life and property.”

“Exiled clansmen and their ladies danced the eightsome reel, the military two-step and slow Scottish waltzes to the music of a bag-piper.”

“While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power.”

“And so all the clans who have totems, those totems define certain territories.”

“Since the early 1990s, Somalia has suffered from a civil war between rival clans.”