dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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I immediately returned, and that I might have a dernier ressort, left my shawl in that I had first obtained.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
Resort′er, a frequenter.—Last resort, the last means of relief, the final tribunal—the French dernier ressort.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Of course the result cannot be very accurate, but is a dernier ressort.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
Should he, however, for any reasons, be unable, I am at your service as a dernier ressort.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by James Marchant
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
