dernier ressort
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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
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
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
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
Locke, in the "Boston Gazette," said: "It will be considered by Americans whether the dernier ressort, and only asylum for their liberties, is not an American Commonwealth."
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake
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