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In your paternal capacity as proproctor what a great deal of trouble you appear to have had.— More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
They had a very comfortable, aspect, -- a wainscoted parlor and bedroom, as nice and cosey as a bachelor could desire, with a good collection of theological books; and on a peg hung his gown, with a red border about it, denoting him to be a proproctor.— Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

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