Sentence examples for scion of nobility from inspiring English sources
She is forty-something Australian pop princess with a string of celebrity exes, while he is a public school-educated scion of nobility, whose family home is a rambling country house in Herefordshire.
His status as a member of China's "red nobility" made him a dangerous rival to Xi Jinping, another scion of nobility who became president this year.
The position of archbishop was usually held by a scion of nobility, and not necessarily a priest; this widespread practice allowed younger sons of noble houses to find prestigious and financially secure positions without the requirements of priesthood.
When the commissioners came for their colonel, a scion of impoverished nobility, his soldiers refused to give him up: "No d'Hautpoul, no 6th Chasseurs".
Pigeons were thus, in this context, an outward sign of nobility (Hoüard 1780; Henry 1981).
In contrast, Pius XII — born Eugenio Pacelli, scion of Rome's so-called black nobility, which has staffed the church's upper ranks for centuries — was a lifelong Vatican bureaucrat-turned-diplomat, with a dour, ascetic manner.
P.C.: The world of nobility.
Their father was a "Marshal of Nobility".
And made the nursling of nobility.
Have the government sell titles of nobility.
