hindermost
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He explored the hindermost recesses of his being, and brought forth his secrets for her to share.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 William Allen White
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 Louis Joseph Vance
There is an immense interval between the foremost and the hindermost in the army of God.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
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 Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
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