dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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But, while returning to the camp-ground, calmer reflections arose, restraining him from the dastardly act, and deciding him to carry out the other alternative, already conceived, but kept back as a dernier ressort.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

Locke, in the "Boston Gazette," said: "It will be considered by Americans whether the dernier ressort, and only asylum for their liberties, is not an American Commonwealth."

From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

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

Should he, however, for any reasons, be unable, I am at your service as a dernier ressort.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

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

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