Scions

It is advisable to label scions before they are stored to avoid the confusion that will result if they are mixed. ❋ Carl Weschcke (1933)

Sherlockians in and around the city can also choose from smaller local groups, referred to as scions, such as the Long Island Cave Dwellers, the Three Garridebs of Westchester, the Montague Street Lodgers of Brooklyn, as well as the Epilogues of Sherlock Holmes and Mrs. Hudson's Cliff Dwellers, both in New Jersey. ❋ Jo Piazza (2012)

Some of the suspects are regional scions, meaning the Ocampo effort is more of a persecution than prosecution in the eyes of their supporters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She played in front of the Concourse hoi polloi — councilmen, department-store moguls, savings-bank scions, even the borough president. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So enjoy the view, ye remaining scions of Hyannis Port! ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the white trash and the scions of the inner city ghettos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fact that many millions of Americans were “allowed to fail” while the scions of business were propped up by any means necessary, is abominable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But as scions of the political aristocracy carve out lucrative roles in business and embrace the trappings of wealth, their increasingly high profile is raising uncomfortable questions for a party that justifies its monopoly on power by pointing to its origins as a movement of workers and peasants. ❋ Jeremy Page (2011)

He returned and bought a property he dubbed GoldenEye four years later – in the dying days of the British Empire, when the north shore of Jamaica teemed with scions of wealthy British families and American celebrities like Errol Flynn. ❋ AP (2011)

They liken the economy to a "family-run business," both figuratively, given its insularity, and literally, given the role of well-connected scions. ❋ Rick Carew (2011)

These promising scions of wealthy progenitors had come to the ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks to the singularly inept scions of Italy, humanity was introduced to modern science, capitalism, the Renaissance, the rule of law, accounting, atomic energy, the emancipation of women and the Pax Romana. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tuition was $14,000 a year: some of the stupidest and laziest kids were scions of Billionaires (Yes, “B” as Billionaire). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dissolute scions hidden in villas, nymphomaniac wives, a feral child, killers, schemers, louche scamps, virtual saints and "Da Vinci Code"-type plotters—these and dozens more cross Zen's path and test his ability to stay true to his moral values. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)

A bucket of water to be brought, an extra armful of wood to be chopped, the dishes to be washed and wiped, a search to be made through the outfit for some suddenly indispensable article, -- and these two effete scions of civilization discovered sprains or blisters requiring instant attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is grafting the pretty scions on top of unattractive but hardy established trees. ❋ Valerie Bauerlein (2011)