"Maybe he got tired of sipping tea and eating scones with all the Riyadh royalty."

Beamer likes to eat scones, crumpets, cookies and sandwiches.

Deborah made her tea and they ate scones.

The family would be sitting down to eat scones dripping with butter and coddled eggs still steaming from the pan.

Back at Claridge's it was tea time, and a string quartet played Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" while guests ate scones with jam and clotted cream.

Ms. Fuller held a meeting at noon Thursday and made a brief speech as her staff gathered to eat scones and berries from a local caterer, Mangia.

Boswell ate scones as he toured the Hebrides with Dr. Johnson (he thought them very good, but couldn't understand how the Highlanders could eat them with cheese for breakfast).

Many, it turns out, are transplanted Britons who grew up eating scones.

Savchenko was in the players' tea room, eating scones, drinking coffee and admitting she would rather wait one more day before finishing the match.

As she passed Edgar's, Rose knew she would never again think of tea without remembering the many times Joan had sat at one of these tables eating scones and clotted cream.