dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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He favors sending out a commissioner to Europe for aid, on the basis of emancipation, etc., as a dernier ressort.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

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

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

But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

As a dernier ressort, he at last substituted cash for eatables, which was certainly a queer mode of satisfying the inner man.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder

Ha!—I love him too well to let him be Miss Charlecote’s engine for managing me!—her dernier ressort to play on my feelings. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary