last expedient
Example Sentences
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From that time matters beginning to look worse and worse, he considered it, as his last expedient, to address Cromwel himself.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus
Diana who sees Cesar approaching, determines to try a last expedient, in order to humble his pride.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.
The last expedient which the minds of men could invent for putting the slavery question in the position of a purely local matter had been tried, and had utterly and miserably failed.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William
But before having recourse to this last expedient I would make another attempt to go against the wind and the current.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof
To search the sea-ports personally he regarded as a last expedient.
From The Waif of the "Cynthia" by Laurie, André
