Resorting
[ri'zɔ:tɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resort
Typist: Melville
Examples
- Before resorting to torture, the teaching seems to be, see that you pump up a little justifiable moral indignation, and all will be well. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He played this part now with as much spirit as if his journey had been entirely successful, resorting at frequent intervals to his flask. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As to resorting to any legal adviser, even if she had known how to do so, it was scarcely to be thought of, for the same reason. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Melville