dernier ressort

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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

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

If the Military kept whittling down our rations, if we were to be permitted only to nibble like so many birds, the vegetables might one day serve as a dernier ressort.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

Dalrymple, the chief hydrographer of the Admiralty, who had chief claims to the command, was also somewhat of a faddist, and Cook was selected almost as a dernier ressort.

From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph

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

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