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In general I’m asking: If your ambitions are more of a remaking of society versus a retrenchment, isn’t it harder for the remaker than the retrencher?

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

When he came forward after his father's death, we believed in his pledges and promises, as a retrencher and reformer, and we stuck by him.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

You may wonder why the boys did not complain of conditions to Sam, but Lem was manager—and there is something so virtuous and convincing about a first-class retrencher.

From Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks by Unknown

I tell you, Stucker, a natural-born retrencher has his virtues.

From Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks by Unknown

The retrencher is all right if you don’t pay him too much.

From Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks by Unknown