dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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Do men who marry under such circumstances honour and trust the women, who as a dernier ressort bear their names?

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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

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

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

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