last expedient

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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)

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

The last expedient which the minds of men could invent for putting the slavery question in the position of a purely local matter had been tried, and had utterly and miserably failed.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

Nay, on this second thought's rehearsing the last expedient seemed the better of the two, since thus the plot would come to naught and we would be the gainers by the capture of the powder.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

We try the last expedient first, and get nothing.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian