hindermost

Example Sentences

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It's each man for himself in a city office and God help the hindermost.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

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.

In a moment he had borne down the hindermost.

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

‘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.

These wing-like processes are borne by prolongations of five or six of the hindermost ribs, and can be folded up.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various