dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
A last appeal to the fellow before me only produced another smile; so, as a dernier ressort, I drew my chair towards the table, and thrust my manacled hands out of sight.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
Locke, in the "Boston Gazette," said: "It will be considered by Americans whether the dernier ressort, and only asylum for their liberties, is not an American Commonwealth."
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake
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
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
