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
There is an immense interval between the foremost and the hindermost in the army of God.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
Life was a scramble and devil take the hindermost with him.
From Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
And anyhow, when you've been as long in this game as I have, you'll realize that the motto of the profession is 'Everybody for himself and the devil take the hindermost'!
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
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