dernier ressort
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A dernier ressort, vraiment! for my choice was that, or cooling my feet on the burning pavement au naturel; I who have such a terror of any one seeing my naked foot!
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
Should he, however, for any reasons, be unable, I am at your service as a dernier ressort.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by James Marchant
Then came the stroke climacteric; the dernier ressort of satanic hostility.
From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. Whitney
Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school- room is the dernier ressort.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy
Resort′er, a frequenter.—Last resort, the last means of relief, the final tribunal—the French dernier ressort.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
