last expedient
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It had been her last expedient to revive the old love, to rekindle the dead ashes of the smouldering fire.
From Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
Andrews bitterly regretted afterwards that this last expedient was not tried.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
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 Fridtjof Nansen
By this last expedient he at once placed thirty feet of water between the boat and the Montauk, a space that the Arabs had no means of overcoming.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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