Meanings of last scion in English

He was the last scion of a noble family of Burgundy.

A fortune to whomsoever will save my son!-myonly son!-thelast scion of a noble race.

The title of Delmont became extinct, for the last scion of that ancient race had gone to his last home.

Yet his mother mourned for him as for all her blighted hopes, and the last scion of a noble house.

The last scion of that ancient house knelt in the mold of his father's grave and made the sign of the cross.

The first pregnancy passed well and produced a son, my grandson, who now lives with us, the last scion of two families.

He was the last scion of the elder branch of Montmorency and his death was a fatal blow to the reign of feudalism.

This noble youth, who was the last scion of the house of Condé, inhabited a place called Ettenheim, in the duchy of Baden.

There wasn't a cabin in all that countrywide in which this barefooted last scion of a long line of slave-holding gentry wasn't known and welcome.

Elsewhere in Galatia, the last scions of the Thirteenth Tribe had blended with the other Twelve.

"At least I trust one of the last scions of our race brought no disgrace on it."

He was better travelled than most of his race, so he had heard tell of Mantis Weaponsmasters, the last scions of a truly ancient cult.