dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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"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
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
Dalrymple, the chief hydrographer of the Admiralty, who had chief claims to the command, was also somewhat of a faddist, and Cook was selected almost as a dernier ressort.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph
All facts connecting Lloyd with the case tend to his implication and guilt, and to prove that he adopted the dernier ressort of guilt— accusation and inculpation of another.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
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 Stewart, F.A.
