The title of censor was esteemed more honorable than that of consul, although attended by less power: no one could be elected a second time, and they who filled it were remarkable for leading an irreproachable life; so that it was considered the chief ornament of nobility to be sprung from a censorian family.
— from Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. (Charles Knapp) Dillaway

He fled from London, and I lost sight of him.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

Waiving the point that if Germany first laid aside international law she had no right to expect Belgium to respect its dictates, it may be safely assumed that the evidence cited by the Germans is of little or no value.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

In St. Marylebone, the sewers, themselves insufficient for the requirements of a growing population (1858), were, in many cases, so shallow as to cause rather than remove evil, for in certain places they flooded the basements, and in more than one house was witnessed the curious spectacle of the daily use of pumps to remove the foul liquids, as in leaking ships.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson