hindmost

• “To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others.”

  The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

• “But I say to you: Each for all, and the hindmost is your charge.”

  They Call Me Carpenter

• “Behind them at a distance of several rods came two others, holding precisely the same relative positions, while the rest were strung along over the prairie, until it looked as if the hindmost was a third of a mile distant.”

  The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux

• “Those at the receiving end viz the powerless, the hindmost are the ones the devil takes.”

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• “For who are the weakest, the "hindmost," but the babies!”

  Problems of Conduct

• “Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”

  George Eliot on Insects

• “LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost.”

  Chapter 2: Challenges

• “This is the key-note to LAISSEZ FAIRE, -- everybody for himself and devil take the hindmost.”

  THE CLASS STRUGGLE

• “Like Dick would say, “The devil take the hindmost.””

  Simon & Schuster: Amaryllis in Blueberry

• “If government were seen acting in advance to protect its own claims in a bank failure, and devil take the hindmost, it would have a powerful effect on the thinking of the hindmost.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Basel's Capital Gang

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