dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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But, while returning to the camp-ground, calmer reflections arose, restraining him from the dastardly act, and deciding him to carry out the other alternative, already conceived, but kept back as a dernier ressort.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school- room is the dernier ressort.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

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 Bose, Shib Chunder

The successor of this unknightly leader of the order was the Emperor Paul I., of Russia, who was chosen as a dernier ressort.

From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray

I immediately returned, and that I might have a dernier ressort, left my shawl in that I had first obtained.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various