dernier ressort

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Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school- room is the dernier ressort.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

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.

But that would only be a dernier ressort, and a thousand things might happen in the meantime.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

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

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)