dernier ressort

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A dernier ressort, vraiment! for my choice was that, or cooling my feet on the burning pavement au naturel; I who have such a terror of any one seeing my naked foot!

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan

This is the last refuge of the Theist—the dernier ressort of the theologian.

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen

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

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)

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