Not perhaps from the men, but the women of his own house and clan might have set upon him, as was their right.
A moment later, one of the clan came running in.
Not when the good of the clan was at risk.
The last chief of the clan died in the 18th century.
The rest of the clan are too far from us.
She was perhaps the only other member of their clan left who could do that.
That was how the men of his clan found him.
A married woman is considered part of her husband's clan.
I am the only man of my clan within three hundred miles.
For years he had been a nobody, the least of his clan.