undermost
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The weight of this rottenness lay heaviest of all on the labouring poor, who stood undermost in the social scale.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
Rusty cables and chains, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and confused timber defences against the waves, lie strewn about, in a brown litter of tangled seaweed and fallen cliff.
From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The two grappled, and rolled on the floor, Frank undermost.
From Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
They tugged and tore at each other for a moment or two, and then went down together, falling on their sides, Wanless, being, if anything, rather undermost.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
What was undermost should be topmost, and what was topmost should be undermost!—See there, now! his leg is longer than mine!—whip it off, and away with it!
From A Christmas Greeting by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
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