Battir's eight main clans take turns each day to water the village's crops.

From its perceived founder a clan takes its name.

We are all afraid that if we give up our weapons, other clans will take their revenge.

During the war in the spring, almost the whole clan took refuge at the farm.

The clan or tribal entities into which they were organized then took the name of the settlement.

But it happened so fast that even the clan had taken a while to accept it, to close her out of their sight.

Ken's clan didn't take kindly to that and rounded on the woman, who sought some kind of defence.

The mansion was burned down and the clan took refuge inside the Hokke-dō.

The four clans, all opposed to the authority of the current parliament, assaulted the town and took the castle.

No clan could take insult at the thought that one of their own had been passed over for a less favourable candidate.