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    scion


    1. “You’re the last scion of a once great family


    2. “Is his subconscious mind trying to tell us something he cannot directly express?” Admiral Hrickletl was the debonair scion of a fine old Ducal Family from Antares’ fourth planet, the one they called ‘The Big One


    3. He didn't blame himself—he'd meant well and done his best, simply underestimating the greed and egocentrism of this scion of wealth


    4. The scan swept Mount Dudra at 2,556 metres and similar peaks - Ratcliff, Scion and The Queen


    5. Another friend filled the gap: Bertie von Mateus, the scion of an aristocratic German family in East African exile


    6. Fulfiller of the prediction of Hallab; mighty son of Sin-muballit; the royal scion of Eternity; the mighty monarch, the sun of Babylon, whose rays shed light over the land of Sumer and Akkad; the king, obeyed by the four quarters of the world; Beloved of Ninni, was he


    7. Scaliger liked to tell that he was born at Castle La Rocca and was a scion of the House of La Scala, a prestigious family of nobles who had ruled Verona, Italy for 150 years


    8. Rahul’s one-time political ‘guru’ Digvijaya Singh’s son-in-law, Paranjayadityasinh Parmar, scion of the royal family of Santrampur in Gujarat, who had been pushing for a ticket from Gujarat, was also struck off the final list


    9. “And what is this omnipotent boogyman?” Urit believed he was staring at it, both as scion of AI's and progenitor of VAI's, yet this HIV was invisible although detectable


    10. A Scion of an Important Ancestor and his Marvels

    11. How impossible to explain to this scion of an unprejudiced race the limitless objection of the class called _Junker_--I am a female _Junker_--to mix on equal terms with the class that wears white satin ties in the evening


    12. Perish by it scion of Bhuloka!”


    13. “So you think to contend with a scion of my loins?


    14. Meanwhile Amy started dating seriously the scion of a well-known Greek family with interests in clothing imports


    15. Though Hassan was the scion of a rich family and being rich was a very weighty qualification for a prospective husband, Hassan was, unfortunately, a Moslem


    16. Nobody calls this fucking wheelchair cripple by his right name: a fucking filthy rich scion of a robber baron corrupt class elite dynasty of a sick diseased family that was so evil and sick: this diseased man was stricken with polio as an adult


    17. The Bruce's brother, Thomas Fitzgerald, silken knight, Perkin Warbeck, York's false scion, in breeches of silk of whiterose ivory, wonder of a day, and Lambert Simnel, with a tail of nans and sutlers, a scullion crowned


    18. He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county


    19. Then Aragorn cried: 'Yj! ut®vienyes! I have found it! Lo! here is a scion of the Eldest of Trees! But how comes it here? For it is not itself yet seven years old


    20. Cosette was the only scion of an extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of the other Fauchelevent

    21. She seldom looked for a fight, and least of all with the Sansamour scion, who might well poison her pudding


    22. The scion of the Principality of the Tyrant’s Jaw herself had on a translucent white human mask painted with what struck Melodía as a look of hideous glee


    23. A strange thing has happened to a scion of our defunct aristocracy


    24. Six months ago—that is, last winter—this particular scion returned to Russia, wearing gaiters like a foreigner, and shivering with cold in an old scantily-lined cloak


    25. A crowd of eager claimants arose, who cared nothing about any last scion of a noble race undergoing treatment in Switzerland, at the expense of the deceased, as a congenital idiot


    26. Idiot though he was, the noble scion tried to cheat his professor, and they say he succeeded in getting him to continue the treatment gratis for two years, by concealing the death of his benefactor


    27. He left a fortune of several millions in good current coin, and everything came to our noble scion, our gaitered baron, formerly treated for idiocy in a Swiss lunatic asylum


    28. Now this is the question: how, in the name of justice, should our scion have argued the case? Our readers will think, no doubt, that he would say to himself: ‘P—— showered benefits upon me all my life; he spent tens of thousands of roubles to educate me, to provide me with governesses, and to keep me under treatment in Switzerland


    29. Bagantoff, though a young idiot (as Velchaninoff expressed it), was nevertheless a scion of the very highest society in St


    30. When a male scion of one of the really great families married the daughter of an all-too-well-known sporting man, he and his wife were refused a subscription to the following balls

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    Synonyms for "scion"

    scion offshoot branch stem cutting graft sprout successor heir offspring child posterity

    "scion" definitions

    a descendent or heir