hindermost
Example Sentences
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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
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
And between the hindermost and the squamosal there is an intervening bar of bone, unknown among mammalia, which moves upon the skull by a joint, just as the lower jaw moves upon it.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
"Every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost" summed up their philosophy.
From The American Empire by Scott Nearing
Then the hindermost of the pursuers stopped, and with lightning-like rapidity picked up a large stone.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Bertram Mitford
