Clique or family

Usage examples of clan.

Verlis from Abaddon and let me go with him to Draconae to help his clan.

The southwest corner of Anshan contains the Persian highlands, whose clan leader was Cyrus the Achaemenid, hereditary lord of Anshan.

In Albania he chanced to knock at the gate of the castle belonging to the head of the powerful Wallenstein clan, where he was duly invited to spend the night.

Algol-Raphael, patriarch of the Algol clan, king schmuck of the universe, has parked himself beside a column next to the stairway.

Belt, and the Algol clan is at the forefront of the Omega Point movement.

Superior spacers wearing hard-suits painted with the sword emblem of the Algol clan.

Perhaps alone of the Algonkin tribes the Shawnees confined it to one totem, but it is remarkable that the greatest of their prophets, Elskataway, brother of Tecumseh, was not a member of this clan.

The scion of a pure Castilian clan he preferred not to name, the young rebel leader would have had no trouble passing as a dapper Anglo in a different outfit.

She was the queen of a warrior clan in Ansu about six thousand years ago.

She butchered her way to the thrones of about six clans in southern Ansu, and then the rest of the clans joined forces and overwhelmed her.

Appendix are given the clan names of the Coyoteros, also of the Arivaipa and the Chiricahua.

This conclusion is suggested first of all by the practice of the Arunta and other Central Australian tribes, who observe very similar ceremonies with the avowed intention of thereby multiplying the totemic animals and plants in order that they may be eaten by the tribe, though not by the particular clan which has these animals or plants for its totem.

King Ashfall used to ally the strongest of the clans to the crown via marriage.

Blind Hari avers that very few of the blades came from the east or the south, most being produced by clan smiths who had dug the metal out of ancient ruins.

The bond is like that of the Axemaster for each member of the clan, not between members.