At that moment, when no other man would have been able to hold back the multitude, he put a stop to the intended expedition, and rebuked and turned aside the resentment felt, on personal grounds, against the envoys; he dismissed them with an answer from himself, to the effect that he did not object to the government of the Five Thousand, but insisted that the Four Hundred should be deposed and the Council of Five Hundred reinstated in power: meanwhile any retrenchments for economy, by which pay might be better found for the armament, met with his entire approval.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
It was singularly unfortunate that these retrenchments should always happen when the gardens were most destitute of vegetables.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
The ladies were not pleased at being thus deprived of a large part of their income; but this, with the few other retrenchments made by the royal family, was right.
"The Peasant and the Prince"
Harriet Martineau