All 3 Uses of
recourse
in
Anna Karenina
- They had to have recourse to the sure, never-failing topic—gossip.†
Part 2 *
- Once in a previous year he had gone to look at the mowing, and being made very angry by the bailiff he had recourse to his favorite means for regaining his temper,— he took a scythe from a peasant and began mowing.†
Part 3
- He knew what makes a soldier, and judging by the appearance and the talk of those persons, by the swagger with which they had recourse to the bottle on the journey, he considered them poor soldiers.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(recourse) a different way to accomplish something when the preferred way doesn't work