Finally he resorted to a forcible-feeble display of violence.
In despair of other solutions to its intellectual discords it had resorted to arbitrary authority.
Defeated in that, his enemiesresorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends.
At the same time iron smelting, which had been restrained hitherto to small methods by the use of charcoal, resorted to coke made from coal, and the coal and iron industries also began to expand.
But they early resorted to strips of the papyrus reed fastened together, from whose name comes our word 'paper.
When hand-grinding is resorted to, a continuous elliptical motion of one stone over the other with a slight twist from the wrist will prove most effective.
Fine etching cannot be resorted to as in photo-engraving, neither is it possible, to emphasise effects by skilful overlay and underlay; consequently half-tone impressions from a lithographic stone are frequently disappointing.
Hence the value of Transfer Printing as a useful auxiliary process which can be resorted to without the expense of special machinery.
Excessive pressure is frequently resorted to in order to "bring up" an impression which is defective owing to some error of judgment in its preparation.
Opprobrious names are not arguments; and imputations of motives and character are not facts, and are usually resorted to for want of them.
But imputation of motives and character is not argument, is most resorted to for want of argument, much less is it a refutation of statements now universally known to be true.
After cruising off those parts of the coast most usuallyresorted to by slavers until the commencement of the rainy season, these vessels returned to the United States for supplies, and have since been dispatched on a similar service.
A sale of stocks to raise the money and then a reinvestment of it according to the letter of the compact ought not to be resorted to on account of their present low price in the market.
They have, to their great credit, not only continued to meet their engagements, but have even repudiated the grounds of suspension now resorted to.
His fame was confined to those who resorted to old-fashioned country-houses, chiefly single men, for the sake of sport.
For euen at his first comming thither, diuers of the Troians that remained in seruitude, being desirous of libertie, by flocks resorted vnto him.
Wherevpon he being expelled, resorted into Kent, there to take aduise with his fellow-bishops, Laurence and Iustus, what was to be doone in this so weightie a matter.
Lucius and all his houshold with diuers of the Nobilitie were baptised, beside infinit numbers of the common people, which dailie resorted vnto them, and voluntarilie renounced all their idolatrie and paganisme.
I again resortedto the Dorking fiction,--my aged aunt breaking fast, and requiring much propitiation from a dutiful nephew with an eye to her testamentary arrangements.
In his dilemma Mr. Hawkehurst resorted to that simple method which civilisation has devised for the relief of pecuniary difficulties of a temporary nature.
We have observed that there are other punishments of the Indians resorted to on Mexican plantations for trifling faults or misdemeanors, besides the great and final calamity of expulsion.
Dry scouring upon the French plan, which consists of scrubbing the floors with dry brushes, may be resorted to, and will be found more effective than can at first be imagined.
He should particularly guard against opening a shop to supply what may be termed the superfluities of life; for the inhabitants of new suburban districts are those who, like himself, have resorted to a cheap residence for the sake of economy.
This is a good and simple test, which may be resorted to in baking bread and all kinds of cakes.
French could he speak--and Latin was therefore necessarily resorted to by both parties.
Once Petrarch resorted to his cook as a messenger.
Eye-glasses were a somewhat new invention when Petrarch resortedto them.
The tyrants, in their struggle to maintain their power at home and increase their prestige abroad, inevitably resorted to the approved expedient of the usurper, territorial aggrandisement.
If you, having no other means of defence, have resorted to the fire to save your works from the criticism of such despotic judges, I cannot disapprove the act and must commend your motives.
Cato resorted to it often on behalf of others, and for himself four and forty times.
His father was a very wealthy man, and resorted to many expedients to cure the boy of his vicious propensities.
Mr. Lowington looked at Shuffles, as though he knew all about the method to which he had resorted to secure an election; but we are quite sure that Paul Kendall had never lisped a word of it to him, or to any of the instructors.
Even Cicero, the man of peace and constitutional statesman, felt comfort in the thought that this final argument could be resorted to by his own party.
That resource, under any circumstances, must very quickly have brought on the crisis; but true to the last, John resorted to patent British brandy, and his fate was astonishingly accelerated.
It denies all the natural rights of the people; and is resorted to only by usurpers and tyrants, to justify their crimes.
And many resorted unto Him, and said, John did no miracle but all things that John spoke of this man were true.
Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place for Jesus ofttimes resortedthither with His disciples.
If the skin of the nipple is very sensitive, a nipple-shield should be used for the first few days; or should the nipple become sore at any time, the shield can be resorted to.
But if all these means have failed, medicines must be resorted to.
His reputation still increased, and many resorted to his chamber to hear the Greek writers explained.
It is recorded by Wood, that his practice was very extensive, and that many patients resorted to him.
This method of tracing and reproducing signatures is that usually resorted to by novices but is seldom employed by expert forgers.
Many devices have been resorted to by counterfeiters to raise genuine bank-notes, as well as to manufacture bogus ones, but one of the most novel has recently come to light.
Along the brow of the tree-clad ridge which overlooks the place, and to which Bronson Alcott resorted for the morning and evening view, the patriots hastened to intercept the retreat of the British troops, "blackened and bloody.
And here I think the Quakers would particularly condemn music, if they thought it could be resorted to in the hour of affliction, in as much as it would then have a tendency to divert the mind from its true and only support.
But none would censure his wickedness for having resorted to such dreadful means for the determination of his dispute.
But all such amusements, as those in question, if resorted to for the filling up of his vacant hours, they conceive to be unworthy of his intellect, and to be below the dignity of his Christian character.
The second outward fact, which may be resorted to as furnishing a ground for reasonable conjecture, is the doctrine of the Quakers upon this subject.
It allows no image to be held out, that is not a faithful picture of its original, or no action to be resorted to, that is not correspondent with the feelings of the heart.
In toxication has been also frequently resorted to for the same purpose.
Gershom seems to have been the first Rhenish scholar who resorted to the written word for the spread of his teachings.
To facilitate comprehension by the reader Rashi resorted to the use of pictures and diagrams, some of which still appear in his Talmudic commentary, though a number have been suppressed by the editors.
We have resorted generally to the executive and have been satisfied with its appointment of a few men to office, and with its passive execution of the laws affecting us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resorted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
