hindermost

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‘I thought that time of cramped penance would never end, but at last the hindermost buck got his head safe behind a welcome ridge, and then we were soon up and after them.’

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.

Observe its long and slender legs, its humped middle segments, and its upturned hindermost segment, of enormous size and mounted with a pair of clubbed 'horns.'

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

"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

He was running his life on a different motor from the motor which moved Harvey; the town was moving after a centripetal force–every one was for himself, and the devil was entitled to the hindermost.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen

One of the hindermost was a man named Gĕnih, and to him To’ Kâya shouted: 'Gĕnih! it profits the Râja little that he gives thou and such as thee food both morning and evening!

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir