dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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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.
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
A dernier ressort, vraiment! for my choice was that, or cooling my feet on the burning pavement au naturel; I who have such a terror of any one seeing my naked foot!
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
I immediately returned, and that I might have a dernier ressort, left my shawl in that I had first obtained.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
He favors sending out a commissioner to Europe for aid, on the basis of emancipation, etc., as a dernier ressort.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
