dernier ressort

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But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

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

As a dernier ressort, application was made to the fountain-head—to Mr. Luke Fildes, R.A., the famous illustrator of that beautiful work.

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)

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 Whitney, Orson F.

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