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
He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
He is generally some broken-down clerk or tradesman, who, having lost every prospect of life, chooses this description of business as a dernier ressort.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
A dernier ressort, vraiment! for my choice was that, or cooling my feet on the burning pavement au naturel; I who have such a terror of any one seeing my naked foot!
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
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