dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

I immediately returned, and that I might have a dernier ressort, left my shawl in that I had first obtained.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school- room is the dernier ressort.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

"We don't get on at all; he has no more inclination for the church, than I have; I pity these younger sons just ran into some fat living as a dernier ressort."

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg

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 Hughes, William R. (William Richard)