behindhand

Example Sentences

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Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to be behindhand with you in your frumps, I give you back your purse of gold: Take you that—in imagination.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

“Papa got to be very much behindhand through Frank and Cyril.”

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

August.–Soon fell to work on some stories, for things were, as I expected, behindhand when the money-maker was away.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

It's just because I have been talking so long that I am behindhand.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de