3124 examples of resort in sentences

Those which resort to the countries of the Levant are supposed to come from the mountains of Armenia, or the deserts of Tartary or Siberia.

The flowers form a favourite resort for bees, as their petals contain a great amount of saccharine matter.

It was a sailor's trick of last resort, heartlessly cruel in its agony, but I felt then no call to mercy.

Why, be it so; yet stay with him awhile, Till we take order for the company, That shall attend him, and resort to him.

The inhabitants are very much dependent on the visitors who resort thither during the three summer months, and amongst whom may frequently be reckoned some of the first families in Europe.

What makes this new resort to haunt our house.

Nor was it uncommon to meet what was called the cream of society at the celebrated rendezvous of Ben Caunt, which was the Coach and Horses, St. Martin's Lane, or at the less pretentious resort of the Tipton Slasher; and what will our modern ladies think of their fair predecessors, who in those days witnessed the drawing of a badger or a dog-fight on a Sunday afternoon?

Resort was then had to a plain box, and in this the body of another of the stricken family group was laid away.

To this Maud replied in the following manner: Her customary places of resort, when in the woods, were well known; more especially to Michael, who was frequently employed in their vicinity.

I have known men so blinded as to assert that a soldier is bound to maintain his honour at the expense of the law; and this in face of the fact that, in a free country, a soldier is in truth nothing but one of the props of the law, in the last resort.

The moral sense is extinguished, persons once honest resort to fraud and theft, if need be, to obtain the drug, till at last health, character, and life itself all become a pitiful wreck.

Other persons, jaded with business or with worry, and unable to sleep, unwisely resort to some narcotic mixture to procure rest.

places of unearthly resort.

When after two years their money was all spent, it was necessary to resort to barter, and cattle were given in exchange for corn, by which means the King became possessed of all the personal property of his subjects.

The Popular Review of Judicial Decisions upon constitutional questions; that is to say, a provision, under which, when a court of last resort has decided that a particular law is invalid, because in conflict with a constitutional provision, the law may nevertheless be made valid by a popular vote.

Their judgments are technically binding only in the particular case decided, but the knowledge that the court of last resort has reached such a conclusion concerning a statute, and that a similar conclusion would undoubtedly be reached in every case of an attempt to found rights upon the same statute, leads to a general acceptance of the invalidity of the statute.

Reimer, the resident, realizing that Trenck knew of the plot, saw that the time had come to resort to armed intervention.

It is difficult to admire enough the patriotic forecast of those ancient politicians who established places of public resort where water was dealt out gratis to all comers, and who confined wine to the shops of the apothecaries, that its use might be prohibited save under the direction of physicians.

It was decided also that the five dogs should go, for they would provide transportation, in case of accident, and could be killed and eaten as a last resort.

In this sea there are many islands, to which numerous birds resort to breed; particularly the falcons called Pegrim, Esmetliones, and Bousacei, and many other birds not to be found elsewhere.

Continuing our journey, we came to Tauris, a great and royal city anciently called Susa, which is reckoned the chief city in the world for trade and merchandize; for every article whatever, both of merchandize and provision, is to be had there, in the greatest abundance, Tauris is most conveniently situated, and to it may all the nations of the earth, almost, resort for trade.

The great lesson of war, especially of civil war, is, that contending parties might better make great concessions than resort to it, for it is certain to demoralize a nation.

The power of the State over its own subjects is thus in the last resort a consequence of the existence of other States.

His chief education is the visits of his shop, where if courtiers and fine ladies resort, he is infected with so much more eloquence, and if he catch one word extraordinary, wears it forever.

On these occasions we have to resort to exceptional ventilation, which for ordinary every-day life would be too much.

3124 examples of  resort  in sentences