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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 Various

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

They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923

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 Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

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 Durant Drake

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

Chapter 2: Challenges 2010

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

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

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

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

"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?"

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"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 2009