1 But when Zenobia's doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie.
2 Borrowed money probably or else the whole Elsing clan had contributed to give Fanny this expensive wedding.
3 Melanie had all that passionate clan loyalty peculiar to Georgians and the thought of a family quarrel tore her heart.
4 So the gossip ran, tearing the town apart, tearing apart, too, the close-knit clan of Hamiltons, Wilkeses, Burrs, Whitemans and Winfields.
5 I claim him for one of our clan.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 6 And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires and a whole clan named Blackbuck who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.
7 His voice was solemn as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.
8 Then came the Ausonian clan and the tribes of Sicania, and many a time the land of Saturn put away her name.
9 The plantation organization replaced the clan and tribe, and the white master replaced the chief with far greater and more despotic powers.