last expedient

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If for any reason this last expedient does not succeed, must we despair for this evening?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 by Various

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

John had to fall back upon his last expedient.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

He had tried every imaginable remedy, and now, as a last expedient, was about to take her to her paternal home in the South, to see what native air might do.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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