behindhand

• “These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however (like a few in England who are a century behindhand), thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains.”

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• “I may be more than a bit behindhand with balancing bank statements, but the knitting archives are up-to-date.”

  Jean's Knitting

• “It was very necessary he should see Mr. Vanderlip, because of the shameless one he would be all of a week behindhand in filling the contract.”

  Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women

• “I have been behindhand with book buying 'cause of moving house, but I will very soon! be buying Magic Under Glass, Guardian of the Dead, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.”

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• “The month of October had put us a good deal behindhand, but now we were making up the distance we had lost.”

  The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier

• “These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however like a few in England who are a century behindhand, thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains.”

  A brief essay on the general attitude of common folks towards the natural world inspired by a passage in a book by Charles Darwin, Esq.

• “I forget now where we were at noon on the second day, and where we ought to have been; but I know that we were scores of miles behindhand, and that our case was growing worse every hour.”

  The Holly-Tree

• “The other old man was not behindhand with some moral reflections on this fruitful theme, and both adduced a mass of evidence, of such weight as to render it doubtful — not whether the deceased was of the age suggested, but whether she had not almost reached the patriarchal term of”

  The Old Curiosity Shop

• “If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.”

  Oliver Twist

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