dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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It was a strategic manoeuvre, a desperate and dernier ressort on his part.
From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.
Then came the stroke climacteric; the dernier ressort of satanic hostility.
From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.
He favors sending out a commissioner to Europe for aid, on the basis of emancipation, etc., as a dernier ressort.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
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 Williams, Mrs. Leslie
He is but ill-armed for the unequal strife, having only a Colt’s revolver with one chamber empty, and, as a dernier ressort, the single-barrelled pistols in the holsters.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
