dernier ressort

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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

Do men who marry under such circumstances honour and trust the women, who as a dernier ressort bear their names?

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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 Thornbury, Walter

Of course the result cannot be very accurate, but is a dernier ressort.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school- room is the dernier ressort.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker