dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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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
It was a strategic manoeuvre, a desperate and dernier ressort on his part.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
One last word—arsenic is the dernier ressort, and should not be used until other means have failed, whereas some people fly to it when a much simpler treatment would have done all that was necessary.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
It was a dernier ressort, and only adopted because all other efforts had failed; after years of yearning, deep craving of the heart.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
