hindermost
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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 A. H. Smith
Nathaniel was quite enraptured; he stood in the hindermost row, and could not perfectly recognise Olympia's features in the dazzling light.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
"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
Larkin, in the top flight with Major Cowan, had taken up position as the hindermost plane in the group and had, therefore, the greatest altitude.
From Aces Up by Covington Clarke
It is nothing more nor less than the old rule of "The Devil take the hindermost."
