dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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.

He is but ill-armed for the unequal strife, having only a Colt’s revolver with one chamber empty, and, as a dernier ressort, the single-barrelled pistols in the holsters.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

One last word—arsenic is the dernier ressort, and should not be used until other means have failed, whereas some people fly to it when a much simpler treatment would have done all that was necessary.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie

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