undermost

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A moment and the two fell to the ground, the servant undermost.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

The two grappled, and rolled on the floor, Frank undermost.

From Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

In another moment the two figures rolled upon the deck, and the flaxen head was undermost.

From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by Gilbert, W. B.

A Protestant scholar, though one of the very undermost, escaped by the timbers arching over him and some of them slanting against the wall.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Hecuba, taking one of these which was most beauteous with various hues, and largest, brought it as a gift to Minerva; and it glittered like a star, and lay the undermost of all.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois