hindermost
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And between the hindermost and the squamosal there is an intervening bar of bone, unknown among mammalia, which moves upon the skull by a joint, just as the lower jaw moves upon it.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
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
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
Life was a scramble and devil take the hindermost with him.
From Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
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
