All 3 Uses of
recourse
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "Marfa Petrovna is dead, have you heard?" she began having recourse to her leading item of conversation.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- In the opposite case I shall be compelled to have recourse to very serious measures and then...you must blame yourself.†
Chpt 5.3
- Seeing that his accusation of Sonia had completely failed, he had recourse to insolence: "Allow me, gentlemen, allow me!†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
a different way to accomplish something when the preferred way doesn't work