dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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Ha!—I love him too well to let him be Miss Charlecote’s engine for managing me!—her dernier ressort to play on my feelings. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

It was a dernier ressort, and only adopted because all other efforts had failed; after years of yearning, deep craving of the heart.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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

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)

I was only running to him as a sort of dernier ressort.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne