hindermost
Example Sentences
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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 horses kicked out in every direction, not liking such close quarters; the hindermost forcing their way in, the foremost unable to go any farther in the narrow space.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
The poet also noticed that "ever he rode the hindermost of the route."
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
It is nothing more nor less than the old rule of "The Devil take the hindermost."
