And in a moment she came to a division in the pipe; a smaller offshoot diverged, and the tapping was from its direction.

They were coming upon forks almost every twenty yards, smaller offshoots twisting away from both sides of the main tunnel like a dead tree's crooked branches.

The small offshoots of both had been sealed over, so that they were now direct tubes.

Bouley has recently sprouted a much smaller, much less daunting offshoot, across the street and one flight up.

A clan is usually a large group, acknowledged widely in the vampiric society, and not a small offshoot (which is called a bloodline).

At first sight, it appears to be simply a small offshoot from the big branch of lyric elegy:

It winds through shops and old neighborhoods, and small offshoots lead to quiet Shinto shrines.

I gather there's a small offshoot of their civilization that goes around studying other species by temporarily possessing their bodies.

The smaller offshoots may not produce blooms for two to three years.

Some large record companies, beginning to gamble that alternative country is ready for a breakthrough, are creating small offshoots to snare talent and test the market.