hindermost
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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 Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
The poet also noticed that "ever he rode the hindermost of the route."
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
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
"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
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