behindhand

“Oh! are you there?—But you are miserably behindhand. Mr. Cole gave me a hint of it six weeks ago.”

Ziska was not behindhand in this, and in burning convents not infrequently allowed the monks to share the fate of their buildings.

Nor were the heretics always behindhand, when they gained opportunity, in improving the lesson which had been taught them so effectually.

In many circles here, it is the fashion to consider piety and dulness synonymous, and yet they are very different; our German clergyman here is not behindhand in this respect.

I remember that the Catholics used to hold me somewhat cheap, and to think me behindhand, uncatholic, over-English, and the like.