A strange thing has happened to a
scion of our defunct aristocracy.
He appeared at one time a mere
scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.
The bishop of the diocese, an arrogant
scion of the great nobility, claimed the girl's estate on the ground that she had married privately, and thus had cheated the Church out of one of its rights as lord of the seigniory -- the one heretofore referred to as le droit du seigneur.
As they leaned over, both little faces were mirrored on the placid pool; the fierce and terrible features of the ape beside those of the aristocratic
scion of an old English house.
Cedric, to whom the name of Alfred was as that of a deity, had treated the sole remaining
scion of that great monarch with a degree of observance, such as, perhaps, was in those days scarce paid to an acknowledged princess.
If you are a goddess and dwell in heaven, I can only conjecture that you are Jove's daughter Diana, for your face and figure resemble none but hers; if on the other hand you are a mortal and live on earth, thrice happy are your father and mother--thrice happy, too, are your brothers and sisters; how proud and delighted they must feel when they see so fair a
scion as yourself going out to a dance; most happy, however, of all will he be whose wedding gifts have been the richest, and who takes you to his own home.
He was a young prince, the
scion of a proud house that traced its lineage back to the grand old days of Rome well nigh two thousand years ago.
Edward Freely, the orphan,
scion of a great but reduced family, with an eccentric uncle in the West Indies.
You, a
scion of Seacombe, have proved your disdain of social distinctions by taking up with an ouvriere!
It seemed to her that it could be such an easy thing for any girl to love Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick--an English officer and a gentleman, the
scion of an old family and himself a man of ample means, young, good-looking and affable.
Here birth caused no distinctions; the escaped serf, with the gall marks of his brass collar still visible about his neck, rode shoulder to shoulder with the outlawed
scion of a noble house.
46: Her Hippostratus (did wed), a
scion of Ares, the splendid son of Phyetes, of the line of Amarynces, leader of the Epeians.