dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
Do men who marry under such circumstances honour and trust the women, who as a dernier ressort bear their names?
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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
But then they consider it as a kind of dernier ressort, and think it prudent to defer flying to this disagreeable refuge, till they have no relish left for any thing else.
From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by Hannah More
