last expedient

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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

Yet neither percentage, nor tenths, nor sacrilegious spoils, sufficed to meet his expenses; and, as a last expedient, the coin was debased, and irreparable injury inflicted on the country.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

We never guessed the real cause, never saw that he was driven to his last expedient, and obliged to prejudice all his hope of success by precipitancy.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

But an hour after time the balloon still rested inert and then, with fine resolution, Lunardi tried one last expedient.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie

When all arguments failed," says Miss Chesney, breaking into a gay laugh, as recollection crowds upon her, "I proposed one last expedient that nearly drove auntie wild with horror.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)