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Meanings of desperate expedients in English

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Usage of desperate expedients in English
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Dr. Mott was often driven to desperate expedients in the procuring of subjects.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
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At certain times terror had suggested most desperate expedients to her.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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Of the two desperate expedients it was clearly the better; and Garth instantly acquiesced.
Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
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She thought of all sorts of odd and desperate expedients, and with passionate petulance rejected them all.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
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Driven to desperate expedients, he left France.
A Woman of Thirty
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And then would come debts and desperate expedients, the ragged gowns and old shoes of poor artists' households.
The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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In the mean time we must content ourselves with partial remedies, alleviations, best temporary resorts, and even desperate expedients.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 / Devoted t...
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Food, clothing, munitions, medical stores-itwas all the same for all the Southern armies: desperate expedients, slow starvation, death.
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray
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Your case is a desperate one, and, if you would save yourself, you must resort to desperate expedients, likewise.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
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But with the expectations he had been induced to form, he did not think himself justified in having recourse to desperate expedients.
Four Early Pamphlets
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There are many ways of getting money known to business-men-a little risky some of them, perhaps, but desperate cases require desperate expedients.
Cast Adrift
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He came home to a famine-stricken country, and his picture of the England of that spring is one of miserable patience and desperate expedients.
The World Set Free
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In England his flute was not in request: there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
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43 and 44) records the desperate expedients to which Tiberius had recourse to regain his exhausted virility: the scene in Petronius (chap.
The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
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