last expedient
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Annesley
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
It is the last expedient in the administration of penal laws; when it fails, the case is considered hopeless.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
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
At length the Spaniards had recourse to their last expedient: the wild cattle were let loose upon the rear of the freebooters.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
