hindermost
Example Sentences
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Then the hindermost of the pursuers stopped, and with lightning-like rapidity picked up a large stone.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
"Every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost" summed up their philosophy.
From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott
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 Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir
She sets her own pace--and Heaven help the hindermost!
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
It is nothing more nor less than the old rule of "The Devil take the hindermost."
