dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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As a dernier ressort, he at last substituted cash for eatables, which was certainly a queer mode of satisfying the inner man.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose
If the Military kept whittling down our rations, if we were to be permitted only to nibble like so many birds, the vegetables might one day serve as a dernier ressort.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
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
It was a strategic manoeuvre, a desperate and dernier ressort on his part.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
"We don't get on at all; he has no more inclination for the church, than I have; I pity these younger sons just ran into some fat living as a dernier ressort."
From A Heart-Song of To-day by Annie Gregg Savigny
