Land ploughed is not half the value of land Trenched, and the fisherman might trench a bit of land during winter for himself, and in the course of a few years grow all that he required, or the next thing to it, without costing the proprietor or anybody else anything.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
He dropped down, Trenched painfully round, and tried again till his sinews cracked.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
"Should it happen," he writes, "that any cartoon or cut at all Trenched on Russian subjects, and especially his Majesty the Tsar, the page was either torn out or erased in the blackest manner by the Bear's paw.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann