resorte

Updated: May 27, 2025

It might be, too, that the Irishman had arrived at the conclusion that the situation had grown so desperate as to warrant him in the dernier resorte he had fixed upon. If such was the case, then, as Mickey himself might have said, "the jig was up."

Edward Sylvester Ellis - The Cave in the Mountain : A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne