hindermost
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Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
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
And anyhow, when you've been as long in this game as I have, you'll realize that the motto of the profession is 'Everybody for himself and the devil take the hindermost'!
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
All respect for persons, rank, or position, was completely lost sight of, commoners pushing past râjas in their deadly fear of being the hindermost, who is the proverbial prey of the pursuing devil.
From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
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 Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
