But as a clansman to his clan he was courteous, truthful, virtuous, benevolent, with notions of honor as punctilious as those of the ancient knight.
The clansman was not the subject--a term implying some sort of conquest--but the kinsman of his chief.
In clannish tribes, therefore, and particularly among the Celts, the personal freedom of the lowest clansman was the rule, deprivation of individual liberty the exception.
The friendly relation existing between the Otter and Beaver clans is explained by a story of a marriage between an Otter clansman and a Beaver woman.
The demand for revenge for the murder of a clansman arises from the sense of clan solidarity and the necessity of self-defense--it is only in this regard that the blood of the clan is regarded as sacred.
At the present day in the greater part of Christendom one's ecclesiastical position is inherited precisely as the ancient clansman inherited his special cult.
They shall recover their ancient holdings, every inch of them; their right to the land is as good as Archie's; the clansman holds it on as clear a title as the chief.
When Ito came to say good-bye on September 23, he was accompanied by a young fellow-clansman whom he wished me to take to Yedo, nominally as a pupil.
It showed marked traces of American political theories, and I have little doubt that Okuma and his fellow-clansman Soyejima, pupils of Dr Verbeck, had had a considerable part in framing it.
A distinguished clansman and a relation of my friend on the right (Fraserfield) was the discoverer of the Fraser River.
I shall not trespass on that part of the subject, but coming down to this century we find a clansman whose name will ever live in Canada.
It was only the other day we heard of a clansman born in Nova Scotia, but of good Inverness stock, who had been appointed delegate to the Inter-colonial Conference to be held in Ottawa this summer.
That truth and loyalty, however, was not born of a servile, but of a highly patriotic feeling, for the bond which united chief and clansman was that of kindred and common interest, and not of hire and servitude.
The walk of life in Canada that has not been trodden by a clansman would be only an undesirable one for any man to tread.
With them as examples no clansman need feel ashamed of the name.
I mention this incident as affording a good example of the bond of fealty by which the clansmanwas held to his chief.
At that, a look ever came into Ian Macdonald's eyes which made his young clansman love him.
There were feelings in his bosom which could not be expressed; for the character of a Chief was that of a father, and the heart of a clansman durst not dwell upon his failings with critical severity as upon those of other men.
Large tracts of land are considered the property of a clan, but anyone on good terms with the clan may settle on the land and may have all the rights of a clansman except those of fishing.
Good-bye, Sheila,” he said next morning, when the last signal had been given and the Clansman was about to move from her moorings.
Oh, no; he had only been to Glasgow to see if you had gone to catch the Clansman and go North from there.
Among such people as landed on Stornoway quay from the big Clansman her father would seek one face, and seek it in vain.
He got up at preposterously early hours to make each day as long as possible, but it slipped away with a fatal speed; and already he began to think of Stornoway and the Clansman and his bidding good-bye to Sheila.
The speakers were two young men seated in the stern of the steamer Clansman as she ploughed her way across the blue and rushing waters of the Minch.
At this very moment he could see that much of Lavender’s romantic conceptions of Sheila’s character was only an exaggeration of some passing hints he, Ingram, had dropped, as the Clansman was steaming into Stornoway.
Then the Clansman sailed into the quay, and there was a flinging of ropes and general hurry and bustle; while people came crowding around the gangways, calling out to each other in every variety of dialect and accent.
Bidding his young clansman show no sign of recognition when he appeared, the Knight of Loch Awe sent him to the farm in the glen, where the anxious foster-mother eagerly awaited the return of the wanderer.
With dreadful consternation he listened to the unexpected words as the clansman delivered them, and then bade the pipers cease their music.
The body was stripped of everything of value, and the clansman wound it in the plaid and buried it on the battlefield.
From this point of view the relative in question is simply a father’s clansman with paternal descent, while with matrilineal descent the designations for the mother’s mother’s sister’s daughter et al.
Here I am in an alien land; a thousand fiery crosses would not bring one clansman to my side; I cannot fight my foe.
Here is no clansmanof mine, and no cursed Campbell either, to see my end!
Then the Clansman sailed into the quay, and there was a flinging of ropes and general hurry and bustle, while people came crowding round the gangways, calling out to each other in every variety of dialect and accent.
Oh no: he has only been to Glasgow to see if you had gone to catch theClansman and go North from there.
The Wolf clansman of the Caniengas was deemed a brother of the Wolf clansman of the Senecas, though originally there may have been no special connection between them.
Good-bye, Sheila," he said next morning, when the last signal had been given and the Clansman was about to move from her moorings.
The coming of a Harper clansman whom some men called a leader to the conclave of the Doane chieftains was so astounding a phenomenon that it would be a pity to cut it short until its intent was made manifest.
Afore God in Heaven," exclaimed the old clansmanat its end, "ye air a man thet's cut out ter lead!
The elderly clansman received them and heard their talk, much of which was wild and foolish.
Every free clansman carried his battle-axe to church and chase, to festival and fairgreen.
The Brehon law was doomed from the date of the creation of the new Peers at Greenwich, for such a change entailed among its first consequences a complete abrogation of the Gaelic relations of clansman and chief.
A superstition long lingered in the Scottish Highlands, that it was unlucky for a clansman to learn any handicraft engaged in by Lowlanders.
At Killiecrankie and Prestonpans the leaders of the clan and the humblest clansman still charged on foot side by side.
Little cared the clansman for the principles of Filmer or Locke, for the claims of the House of Stuart or for those of the House of Brunswick.
Hence among the Kaitish a Water clansman when alone may drink; but if others are with him he may drink only when water is given him by a man of another Totem.
At death the soul of a clansman may pass into, or may appear as, the Totem animal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clansman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
