To the indignant journalist, Miss Kathleen Pierce had appeared a brutal and hardenedscion of wealth and injustice.
The national subserviency to rank is as plainly evinced by the plates on chamber-doors at the provincial inns, setting forth that therein on a memorable night slept a certain scion of nobility.
Be very careful to see that the cambium of the scionand tree meet on each edge of the scion.
The outer edge of the scion should be somewhat thicker than the inner edge so that when the wedge is taken out it will be held firm.
After Care After new growth starts watch it closely every week or ten days and keep all suckers removed until the scion starts into growth.
In cutting the scion slope from each side with a long slope to fit the split in the stub.
That is a matter I don't think there is much to, whether the scion has one bud or ten.
I first used gum shellac, but later I found that by covering the scion with grafting wax completely it serves the same purpose as the paper.
This Negro, scion of two races, embittered by an instance in our history that will never die, was wild.
An old, old man, scion of a decayed aristocracy, sat in a chair within this art room, and Sidney approached him.
His successor, Arnulf, a scionof the falling Carolingian house, was subsequently unseated for treason to the new-sprung house of Capet.
Nobler and grander than the Child of Rome Curbing his chariot steeds, The knightly scion of a Southern home Dazzled the land with deeds.
There shall spring forth a rod from the trunk of Jesse, and a scion from his roots shall become fruitful.
But the agents of Napoleon kept watch over the lad, as a scion of the old noblesse; and when he had attained a suitable age, Madame de Salgues was requested to send him to the Ecole Polytechnique, such a request being too evidently a command.
His quaestor was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, scion of a decayed patrician family, who was destined to become the bitter rival of his chief.
Syria, where a state of chaos had reigned since Lucullus had wrested it from Tigranes and where a scion of the Seleucids had failed to find recognition.
Dante, though born to be the poet of all time, was still a scion of his epoch.
So changed were the times that this scion of Florentine aristocracy felt no shame in fawning on a despot risen from the people to enslave his city.
The story forms a curious link between this last scion of medieval literature and the painting of the Renaissance.
Among these should be mentioned Fazio degli Uberti, a scion of Farinata's noble house, who lived and traveled much in exile.
The archduke Ferdinand was a genuine scion of an impetuously loyal race.
Early widowed through the death of Eutharich, also a scion of the race of the Amali, she becomes, upon the demise of her great father, regent and guardian of her minor son, Athalarich.
The office of Podesta or Captain of Pisa was only to be held by a member of the League, and it was expressly forbidden to confer that post on any rebel or adversary of the said League, or any scion of the Montefeltro house.
When the scion and the stock are united, which is demonstrated by the former making growth, remove the wax and cut away all shoots that may be produced on the stock.
Next cut the scion in a similar manner so that it will fit exactly into the incision of the stock, bringing the bark of each into direct contact.
If the scion is in a more advanced state than the stock, its growth may be stopped by cutting it off and burying it in the earth under a north wall until the stock has advanced sufficiently in growth.
A portion of the bark is cut from both scion and stock while the vine is in active growth, and the two wounded parts brought into contact, so that they fit exactly.
The union may be completed by the following spring, but it is safer to leave the cutting down of the stock to the point of union and the separation of the scion from the potted plant until the second spring.
This scion should be a branch of the early growth of the previous year's wood, and should be in the same state of vegetation as the stock.
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.
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.
Now this is the question: how, in the name of justice, should our scion have argued the case?
This youth was Jasper de Percy, a scion of the afterwards illustrious house of that name.
Gilbert de Plumpton, a youthfulscion of the family, was living at Plumpton.
The former he took with him to Scotland, to initiate him in the then deemed glorious art of war; and a brave young fellow he proved himself to be, a worthyscion of the old stock.
The merchants of the Directory chose Count John Maurice, of Nassau-Siegen, a scion of the reigning house, and a descendant of William the Silent.
The scion of a wealthy Buenos Aires family, from his childhood he devoted himself to cattle-raising on the vast family estates of the southern pampas.
Thomas de Souza, the illegitimate scion of a great house, was chosen the first governor-general.
Would you rank above me, your grandson, the last scion of your house, a man disgraced by his father's shame?
The Freiherr exulted; this discourteous professor knew now that he was in presence of the scion of a lofty line, and was ready to give the advice he had at first refused.
The idea of the Forschungstein amused him much, but he nevertheless resolved to read his graceless scion a lecture when he should next see him, and the opportunity immediately presented itself, for Hans at that moment entered the room.
In the midst of these relics of vanished splendour the last scion of the Ebersteins, in her gray Cinderella costume, stood leaning against the wall.
They referred to the father's already incipient consumption of the lungs, the germ of which might develop in the son unless great care were taken, and this son was the last and sole scion of an ancient line.
