"Clansman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whom we hear need to be organized into a police force. If we now turn to totemic society, with its elaborate clan-system, it is quite another story. Blood-revenge ranks amongst the foremost of the clansman's social obligations. Over the whole world it stands out by itself as the type of all that law means for the savage. Within the clan, indeed, the maxim of blood for blood does not hold; though there may be another kind of punitive law put into ...
— Anthropology • Robert Marett
... next and find all reversed, the woman the mistress, the man only the first of her thralls. The authority is not with the husband as such, nor the wife as such. It resides in the chief or the chief-woman; in him or her who has inherited the lands of the clan, and stands to the clansman in the place of parent, exacting their service, answerable for their fines. There is but the one source of power and the one ground of dignity—rank. The king married a chief-woman; she became his menial, and must work with her hands on Messrs. Wightman's pier. The king divorced ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... we meet with in the case of the Germanic joint tillage, combining a partition of the land in property among the clansmen with its joint cultivation by the clan, can hardly ever have existed in Italy. Had each clansman been regarded in Italy, as among the Germans, in the light of proprietor of a particular spot in each portion of the collective domain that was marked off for tillage, the separate husbandry of later times would probably ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... her Saxon foes;— How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's—Donald's[4.B.] fame rings in each clansman's ears! ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... brave ones to battle in Bryhtnoth's avenging: "Let no hero now hesitate who hopes to avenge His lord on the foemen, nor fear for his life." 260 Then forward they fared and feared not for their lives; The clansman with courage the conflict began; Grasped their spears grimly, to God made their prayer That they might dearly repay the death of their lord, And deal defeat to their dastardly foes. 265 A hostage took hold now and helped them with courage; He came from Northumbria ...
— Old English Poems - Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose • Various
... sail on moonlit waters, and sitting by a peat fire of a stormy night, discuss, between deep pulls of Scotch whisky, the Erastianism that vitiates modern theology. We must look in the pages of Scott for a more charming picture of the relation of clansman to chief. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... hundred years of a national existence of combat and ruse, always at war, with no friend except far-off Russia,—had developed the natural Slav indifference to the truth into a fine and singularly subtle habit of communicating nothings to any inquiring outsider, which never failed even the most humble clansman. I was, however, pushed on from hand to hand by casual suggestions until I reached the Prince, who gave us audience under the famous tree where he heard appeals of all kinds, from petitions for help to the last recourse from the judgments of the tribunals, ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman |
