dernier ressort
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One last word—arsenic is the dernier ressort, and should not be used until other means have failed, whereas some people fly to it when a much simpler treatment would have done all that was necessary.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
As a dernier ressort, application was made to the fountain-head—to Mr. Luke Fildes, R.A., the famous illustrator of that beautiful work.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes
It was a dernier ressort, and only adopted because all other efforts had failed; after years of yearning, deep craving of the heart.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
If they are deemed unlawful, unjust, and oppressive, first appealing to judicial supervision and all lawful means for relief and protection—revolution the dernier ressort.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
Resort′er, a frequenter.—Last resort, the last means of relief, the final tribunal—the French dernier ressort.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
