dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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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 Thornbury, Walter

"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 Savigny, Annie Gregg

Of this dernier ressort they would be deprived, if equal sentences were passed on all for like offences.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various

Of course the result cannot be very accurate, but is a dernier ressort.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

All facts connecting Lloyd with the case tend to his implication and guilt, and to prove that he adopted the dernier ressort of guilt— accusation and inculpation of another.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various