hindermost
Example Sentences
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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
Proud of his long limbs and of his stately antlers, he led them all down the hill, running back now and then to urge the hindermost ones into line.
From Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Edwin Willard Deming
One of the hindermost transports, taking too wide a bend, crashed into the wagon.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy
He was running his life on a different motor from the motor which moved Harvey; the town was moving after a centripetal force–every one was for himself, and the devil was entitled to the hindermost.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
In a moment they were under cover of the bush and safe out of shot, but in that moment I had recognised the steed bestridden by the hindermost one.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
