hindermost

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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

Grant Adams was centrifugal; he was not considering himself particularly and was shamelessly taking heed of the hindermost which was the devil’s by right.

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

Here a silken carpet is spun as before described; but the caterpillar, instead of clinging with all its claspers, suspends itself in a vertical position by its hindermost pair only.

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

It is nothing more nor less than the old rule of "The Devil take the hindermost."

From Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Various

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.