last expedient
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As a last expedient I bethought myself of a dog-fight as the means of scattering the mob, and sent around the corner to organize one.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
The last expedient was proposed by their general.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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 Theophilus Cibber
He saw, by objects on the land, that he still approached the shore, and he had recourse to the seaman's last expedient.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
Cecilia had outgrown his power, nothing was to be effected here by commands and threats, so he caught at a last expedient.
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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