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  • As he did so, a host of armed clansfolk appeared in the doorway in response to the hasty emergency call he had placed via the communicator.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As he did so, a host of armed clansfolk appeared in the doorway in response to the hasty emergency call he had placed via the communicator.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • "All right-it sounds a good enough plan to me," Tohnee concluded, while the rest of the sobered clansfolk nodded, slowly.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Progress slowed for two days, until they traded fresh mounts from a remote camp of clansfolk.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Before Keldric and Callinde there had been the forester who had taught him independence, a master scribe who had given him literacy, and later, thirty-nine clansfolk who had lost their lives to secure his safety.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • The lady-mother of the dead was there, broken-hearted, and Percival Montrose, to whom the title fell; and I had a fine taste of the fealty of Gaelic-folk, for kinsfolk and clansfolk took the duke's undoing as a personal affront, and put their own matters by to get some one hanged for it.

    Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

  • February 1692 they fell on their hosts, and in a few moments thirty of the clansfolk lay dead on the snow.

    History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

  • But among the Warramunga there is a relaxation of the rule in the case of old people -- for them the food restriction is removed (apparently a humanitarian provision); on the other hand, for other clansfolk there is an extension of the rule -- the prohibition includes two subclasses of the moiety to which the clan belongs, and conditionally includes the whole moiety (this is perhaps a cautionary measure, to guard against the possibility of unlawful eating on the part of clansmen).

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

  • a government led assault on the non-English speaking tribal societies - the clansfolk, that had existed there for countless centuries.

    Destitution Road 1988

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