last expedient
Example Sentences
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Instances have occurred of a tiger being caught by one of the former modes, which had many marks in his body of the partial success of this last expedient.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
When all arguments failed," says Miss Chesney, breaking into a gay laugh, as recollection crowds upon her, "I proposed one last expedient that nearly drove auntie wild with horror.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
John had to fall back upon his last expedient.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter
Yet neither percentage, nor tenths, nor sacrilegious spoils, sufficed to meet his expenses; and, as a last expedient, the coin was debased, and irreparable injury inflicted on the country.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
To search the sea-ports personally he regarded as a last expedient.
From The Waif of the "Cynthia" by Laurie, André
