Although the town founders were once proud to share the name, the association is now a sore point.

The once proud look had been replaced with one of resignation.

Of the once proud castle rock, only its foundations remain.

Unmanaged decline is the story in a once proud city.

Reviewing his own record in London, he seems at once proud and frustrated.

Had his once proud and noble tribe come to this?

This once proud party has now collapsed and is little more than the new Confederacy.

Once proud and independent, she was headed for a nursing home.

It's ridiculous that a once proud company is reduced to this.

It was a sad end to a once proud trade in Ballincollig.