March and Fulkerson retrenched at several points where it had seemed indispensable to spend, as long as they were not spending their own: that was only human.
Mrs. March saw nothing but ruin ahead, and began tacitly to plan a retreat to Boston, and an establishment retrenched to the basis of two thousand a year.
This writer is not certain that 20 millions, on these two heads, could have been retrenchedat the time Mr. Adams spoke; but he is sure of it now.
A young Student, who is in Love with Mrs. Elizabeth Dimple, was so unreasonable as to begin her Health under the Name of Elizabetha; which so exasperated the Club, that by common Consent we retrenched it to Betty.
I, and was thus retrenched in subsequent editions: 'Campley.
But trochaic, retrenched of its last short syllable, is trochaic still; and can no otherwise be made iambic, than by the prefixing of a short syllable to the line.
The first syllable being retrenched from an anapest, there remains an iambus.
He retrenched their laws of building, suffering no more ornament than could be made with a hatchet and a saw: and their furniture was like their houses.
We have not retrenched any of the general ideas on the composition of an entire polynomial by means of factors corresponding to its roots.
Captain Allaud did not doubt that the principal attack would be directed to the left bastion; he had the gorge of this bastion therefore retrenched during the night.
I therefore was of opinion, for the same reason, that it would not be proper for me to omit entirely, in the ensuing history, what relates to this subject, though I have however retrenched a great part of it.
The power of the Areopagus, which was originally the most dignified assembly at Athens, had been retrenched amid the democratic innovations of Pericles.
Having made an estimate of his house, lands, slaves, and expenses, he applied himself to husbandry with new ardour, and retrenched all superfluity.
Pliny informs us, that many things on which Cicero had enlarged at the time when he actually spoke in the Senate and the Forum, were retrenched when he ultimately gave his orations to the public in writing(649).
The fish's heartlessness is his virtue; the male bee's lasciviousness is his vocation; and if these functions were retrenched or encumbered in order to assimilate them to human excellence they would be merely dislocated.
I've nothing modern about me, in the sense of wanting to reconstruct the world generally and be a Joan of Arc to my retrenched compatriots.
The men who saw any solution in making both languages compulsory were not men of true insight; neither were those who retrenched Englishmen in one direction, and created new posts for Dutchmen in others.
It appears from the excavations that the Romans had not retrenched the two first, which is easily explained, for the heights to the west of the Puy-d'Issolu are impregnable.
He received at the same period (the end of October), from the lieutenants and the questor, the news that the legions had arrived and retrenched in their quarters.
All these considerations have decided modern generals in renouncing the system of retrenched camps, to adopt instead natural positions well chosen.
Thus, at this time, he affected an entire carelessness, and retrenched himself in his legality, taking care to avoid all appearance of personal hostility towards Caesar.
For this reason, Purchas retrenched much of the journal, and to make amends subjoined that by Floris.
This journal, as it is called, is so retrenchedor abbreviated in many parts, as to be almost throughout inconsequential, and often so obscured by the unskilful abridgement of Purchas as to be nearly unintelligible.
You were formed to grace those blest patriarchal days when man had five centuries to live; but I warn you that we have retrenched four of them at least.
He retrenched everything that could interfere with the interest of his dialogue; as if determined to make his countrymen do penance for their natural vivacity.
They must therefore be retrenched with the utmost resolution and vigilance, especially those which arise from any secret vanity, sensuality, or want of the most perfect sincerity, candor, and simplicity.
Each preceding session had retrenched somewhat from the power and profits of the pontiff.
I conclude with remarking, that, if any part of what is prescribed in the institute had been retrenched from the education of Jesuits, their society would not have deserved such commendations from Piron and cardinal de Maury[71].
Malesherbes: he retrenched the whole expression in a new sheet which he had printed on purpose and stuck in between the other with as much exactness as possible in the copy of Madam de Pompadour.
He not only retrenched a hundred pages in the edition of Paris, but he made another retrenchment, which no person but the author could permit himself to do, in the copy of the good edition he sent to Madam de Pompadour.
The length of these volumes is already greater than I had anticipated; yet I do not perceive much that could have been retrenched without loss to a part, at least, of the literary world.
From the ruined ramparts of Fort Ballasteros (the name by which the northern retrenched work of the fortress is distinguished) the view looking south is remarkably fine.
