hindermost

Example Sentences

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"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

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

Proud of his long limbs and of his stately antlers, he led them all down the hill, running back now and then to urge the hindermost ones into line.

From Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Deming, Edwin Willard

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

It was every man for himself, and the dogs, take the hindermost.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel