dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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It was a strategic manoeuvre, a desperate and dernier ressort on his part.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
As a dernier ressort, application was made to the fountain-head—to Mr. Luke Fildes, R.A., the famous illustrator of that beautiful work.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes
"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 Annie Gregg Savigny
One last word—arsenic is the dernier ressort, and should not be used until other means have failed, whereas some people fly to it when a much simpler treatment would have done all that was necessary.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
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
