His roads and railways lay also along the lower contours, only here and there to pierce some mountain barrier or reach some holiday resort did they clamber above 3000 feet.
Ujiji was not a place favorable for making arrangements; it was the resort of the worst scum of Arab traders.
The Bechuanas resort to the Bushmen and the poor people that live in the desert for doctors.
Each should look to his circumstances and inner attitude, in order to decide whether he should resort to work or cease from work.
An extremely weak man should notresort to seclusion.
The victims of the latter resortto holy places, and become the pests of the world.
The victims of the former resort to brothels without seriously affecting the well-being of others.
Real Knowledge wells up from the Fountain of Life, and the student thereof need not resort to senses and gropings.
Some say that to refer to any separated self in any way, to be inclined to do anything with one's own will, and to resort to one's own schemes and plans in any emergency, are all forms of polytheism.
In a world of political tyranny, an established church claiming to stand for the whole of supernatural truth must needs resort to tyranny as soon as it could wield the weapons.
Doubtless weak performers tend to resort to violent devices; but they did so before Shakespeare; and Shakespeare did not stick at trifles in Lear and Othello.
The perpetual generation of fresh poverty through rapid increase of population, and the inevitable resort to innovating fiscal and other measures to relieve it, sufficed to provide grounds of class strife while free Athens endured.
When the resortof James II to Ireland gave power to the oppressed population, it was a matter of course that reprisals should be attempted.
Rome in the twelfth century, and the resortof young nobles to Paris for education.
It must, however, be kept on record that when England's commerce had thus begun to distance that of her old rival in virtue of her mere economic basis, Englishmen were none the less ready to resort to wanton aggression.
The earlier phases are crude and animalistic, and involve much resort to physical strife.
I thought I would resort to one of those white lies that we have all heard tell of.
This hotel was located in the heart of the largest forest in Pennsylvania, and originally was a great resort for hunters from all over the state as well as southern and western New York.
He assured me that there were few more charming spots, that it was a favorite resort of his own, and that he himself proposed to pass his vacation there.
That is a favorite resort of young people in novels; but if fathers in real life are so weak in general, I shall prove an exception.
Tinker's Reach, as most people know, is a very popular summer resort on the Atlantic sea-coast.
My house grew to be the favorite resort alike of the fashionable and the cultivated; and to keep it so created an interest in my life which relieved the sombreness of my other occupations.
The space between the bar, which ran across one end of the room, and the billiard-tables, was the favourite nightly resort of the prominent politicians and gamblers.
As a last resorthe resolved to use his infallible receipt against ill-temper.
Then said he, If you will come hither, here would more people resort to kill fish, I think it good (said he) that you make a beginning.
Southwards of Kegor, where we should haue great plentie of salmon, if corne were any thing cheape in Russia: for then poore men would resort thither to kill salmon.
In the Clyde, which we have mentioned as a resort for summer loiterers, there is one exceptional place--the island of Arran.
Every eligible spot on the coast becomes the resort of country-goers, till it is no longer the country.
The bears used possibly toresort thither in the days when bears camped in the beech districts.
The inn was a famous resort for the sturdy mechanics of the North End.
This house was for many years a popular resort for the teamsters and travellers who passed back and forth on what was then an important road.
Tavern-keeping was theresort of widows of small means then, just as the "taking of boarders" is to-day.
And so this old manor-house, with its venerable and homelike air, was arranged as a resort for brigands, and an arsenal and retreat for a little army of conspirators.
As Querelle had done before, he led Manginot and his thirty gendarmes over all the country, until they reached the village of Mancellière, which passed as the most famous resort of malcontents in a circuit of twenty leagues.
He lived at the Hôtel de Beauvais, Rue des Vieux-Augustins, a house that had been known since the Revolution as the resort of royalists passing through Paris.
You take my house for a resort of bandits and counterfeiters!
He thereby induced Vercingetorix to abandon the siege of the town of the Boii, and to resort likewise to the Bituriges.
This is not a last resort expedient to be employed in cases where extensive lesions of the navicular structures exists.
All will acknowledge that, as no other remedy can be so perfect and satisfactory as this, no other can be necessary, if we resort to this with firm faith.
This appears above all from the literature produced by orthodoxy in reply, where the mere defensive resort to reasoning, apart from the accounts of current rationalism, outgoes anything in the previous history of literature.
Each did but express in his own way the resentment of the undisciplined mind at attacks upon its prejudices; and Haller's resort to poetry as a vehicle for his religion gives the measure of his powers on that side.
But to south-western gentlemen the race-course is a place of resort of the most alluring character.
In these towns are the banks, the merchants, the post offices, and the several places of resort for business or pleasure that draw the planter and his family from his estate.
The rapidity of the learned gentleman's motions kept the other side constantly employed, for he never hesitated to change the venue, or resort to a set-off, when he wished to baffle his antagonists.
Beauvais and St. Denis opened their gates, but the Parisians were not so complaisant, and Charles, unwilling to resort to force, tried the effect of flummery.
It has been suggested that it would be well to abolish the electoral college, and resort to a direct popular vote, without reference to state lines.
Ought those who resort to lynch law to be punished?
This was the Dyffryn Conway, the celebrated Vale of Conway, to which in the summer time fashionable gentry from all parts of Britain resort for shade and relaxation.
Because it was a house of idolatry to which people used to resort by hundreds to worship images.
