last expedient
Example Sentences
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From that time matters beginning to look worse and worse, he considered it, as his last expedient, to address Cromwel himself.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus
The hopelessness of their situation was without resource—without mitigation; they had exhausted their last expedient.
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
It is worth trying as a last expedient.
From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis
The Esmeralda was putting out to sea when I thought of a last expedient to draw the attention of her captain.
From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert
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
