dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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Mr. Barclay and myself have thought of Cairnes, at L'Ori-ent, as a dernier ressort.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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
If the Military kept whittling down our rations, if we were to be permitted only to nibble like so many birds, the vegetables might one day serve as a dernier ressort.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
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 Orson F. Whitney
I was only running to him as a sort of dernier ressort.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
