hindermost
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Observe its long and slender legs, its humped middle segments, and its upturned hindermost segment, of enormous size and mounted with a pair of clubbed 'horns.'
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
Valentine tried to get into the hindermost row.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
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
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
It is nothing more nor less than the old rule of "The Devil take the hindermost."
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