hindermost
Example Sentences
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One of the hindermost transports, taking too wide a bend, crashed into the wagon.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis
"Their eggs upon a heap of straw, Then loitering hindermost, the more."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
"Every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost" summed up their philosophy.
From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott
He explored the hindermost recesses of his being, and brought forth his secrets for her to share.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
All respect for persons, rank, or position, was completely lost sight of, commoners pushing past râjas in their deadly fear of being the hindermost, who is the proverbial prey of the pursuing devil.
From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir
