hindermost
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‘I thought that time of cramped penance would never end, but at last the hindermost buck got his head safe behind a welcome ridge, and then we were soon up and after them.’
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck
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
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
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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