dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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It was only, therefore, by the urgency of a despairing effort, as a dernier ressort, these had now sought the presence as petitioners, and naturally they dreaded denial.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Do men who marry under such circumstances honour and trust the women, who as a dernier ressort bear their names?
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
He is generally some broken-down clerk or tradesman, who, having lost every prospect of life, chooses this description of business as a dernier ressort.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Mr. Barclay and myself have thought of Cairnes, at L'Ori-ent, as a dernier ressort.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
