dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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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.

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)

Resort′er, a frequenter.—Last resort, the last means of relief, the final tribunal—the French dernier ressort.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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