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

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

‘I thought that time of cramped penance would never end, but at last the hindermost buck got his head safe behind a welcome ridge, and then we were soon up and after them.’

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.

Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Still the Szeklers persisted in remaining, and there is no knowing what they might not have done, had not one of the hindermost suddenly exclaimed— "Let us go to Bonczhida!"

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r