How many families straitened in their circumstances are there, who, from the shame, sometimes from the utter impossibility otherwise of Retrenching, are obliged to remove from their country, in order to preserve their estates in their families!
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
When it was absolutely necessary to the peace of the kingdom to have a minister who would relieve the people of the heaviest taxes, the king removed such a minister, and thought he was doing what he could to make up for this, by Retrenching some expenses in the palace.
"The Peasant and the Prince"
Harriet Martineau
On the contrary, they explained they were Retrenching and cutting down expenses-they meant they had discharged all office boys who received more than three dollars a week.
"The Man Who Could Not Lose"
Richard Harding Davis