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

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

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

Of course the result cannot be very accurate, but is a dernier ressort.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

But then they consider it as a kind of dernier ressort, and think it prudent to defer flying to this disagreeable refuge, till they have no relish left for any thing else.

From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah

He is generally some broken-down clerk or tradesman, who, having lost every prospect of life, chooses this description of business as a dernier ressort.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter