Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
Dryden
Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
1912: (w), (w), Chapter 12
Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoralEnglish pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallowEnglish tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the stapleEnglish staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipseEnglish eclipse.
puhekieltä A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
Spenser
swift recourse of flushing blood
Sir Thomas Browne
Preventive physic (..) preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.