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  • We will probably be able to catch the tailmost rank with what crack-spells we can set, but no more.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • Keman was tailmost today; he froze in pure astonishment, legs locking-but that wasn't what anyone or anything else in the caravan did.

    The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • 'Now for the next,' says I. Philp's a greedy fellow: he stuck there lookin 'so hard at the weighin'-scoop, wonderin' how much overplush he'd get this go, he didn 'see me twitch the tailmost sack out o' the line wi 'th' end o 'my crutch, nor Bill pick it up casual as he came along an' toss it away into the corner.

    Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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