headmost

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Cobb being the headmost passes the Narrows, but is too late to get over the Falls and obliged to come too in a little cove below.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

They well knew that they were but an inferior and subordinate branch of the Glendinnings, bound in perpetual feudal fealty to its headmost representative.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The headmost one, a frigate, signalled to us to heave-to, an order our captain very unwillingly obeyed.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald

The tents were scarcely pitched before we saw two kaiyacks coming towards us from the westward, and the man in the headmost accepted, without hesitation, our invitation to land.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

“Don’t any of you fire till I tell you,” he said to his men, while he took aim so as to strike the ground a few yards in front of the headmost of the party.

From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell