hindermost
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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
‘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.
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 Vance, Louis Joseph
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 Smith, A. H.
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