hindermost
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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
All respect for persons, rank, or position, was completely lost sight of, commoners pushing past râjas in their deadly fear of being the hindermost, who is the proverbial prey of the pursuing devil.
From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
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
Here a silken carpet is spun as before described; but the caterpillar, instead of clinging with all its claspers, suspends itself in a vertical position by its hindermost pair only.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
The caterpillar is coloured grey and brown, with a black head, and a broad white stripe down the back of the hindermost segments.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
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