hindermost

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This figure must have been the hindermost in the procession of Thallophori, and the entire number of these persons is therefore seventeen, not sixteen, as Michaelis makes it.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

She sets her own pace--and Heaven help the hindermost!

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

"Every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost" summed up their philosophy.

From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott

Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

In a moment he had borne down the hindermost.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir