Resorted

Examples

• Various methods were resorted to in order to keep mold and insects from spoiling the product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• However well deserved this piece of retaliation might have been, it was as vindictive a one as could well have been resorted to. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Voluntary enlistments had ceased throughout the greater part of the North, and the draft had been resorted to to fill up our ranks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A good many expedients were resorted to to keep the excursionists amused and satisfied. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• As they produced no visible effect on the object against whom they were discharged, however, he resorted to more tangible arguments. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Means to overcome the danger were resorted to, and the Star bicycle represented such a construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Defeated in that, his enemies resorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Finally he resorted to a forcible-feeble display of violence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In despair of other solutions to its intellectual discords it had resorted to arbitrary authority. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The shot-gun was not resorted to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had been so long out of the habit of using plain water as a beverage that he resorted to soda-water as a substitute. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But they early resorted to strips of the papyrus reed fastened together, from whose name comes our word paper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Since the end of growth is outside of and beyond the process of growing, external agents have to be resorted to to induce movement toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Direct disapproval is now resorted to. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She had in part suspected, and in part discovered, the main facts of the cruel story, of her husband's share in it, and my being resorted to. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I, myself, never felt great confidence that any of the experiments resorted to would prove successful. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To this manoeuvre he accordingly resorted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In numberless cases, more or less silly personifications were resorted to. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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