dernier ressort

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Do men who marry under such circumstances honour and trust the women, who as a dernier ressort bear their names?

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

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

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

Dalrymple, the chief hydrographer of the Admiralty, who had chief claims to the command, was also somewhat of a faddist, and Cook was selected almost as a dernier ressort.

From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph

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