dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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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 Walter Thornbury
But, while returning to the camp-ground, calmer reflections arose, restraining him from the dastardly act, and deciding him to carry out the other alternative, already conceived, but kept back as a dernier ressort.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
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
He begged, however, that he might not be called upon to take office except as a dernier ressort, a necessity.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Arthur Christopher Benson
Of this dernier ressort they would be deprived, if equal sentences were passed on all for like offences.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various
