Behindhand

I may be more than a bit behindhand with balancing bank statements, but the knitting archives are up-to-date. ❋ Jean (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

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. ❋ Shweta_narayan (2010)

The month of October had put us a good deal behindhand, but now we were making up the distance we had lost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

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Because in war it is the first business of a commander not to be behindhand in knowing what ought to be done and seeing that it is done, and the general who is seldom seen is apt to let things slip. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Common experience attests the excellence of such a system. 168 Thus when we169 wish to set on foot a competition between choruses,170 it is the function of the archon171 to offer prizes, whilst to the choregoi172 is assigned the duty of assembling the members of the band; 173 and to others174 that of teaching and applying force to those who come behindhand in their duties. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nor were the Denmark satins a bit behindhand, for they jumped and bounded about, in all directions; and though they were neither so regular, nor so true to the time as the cloth boots, still, as they seemed to do it from the heart, and to enjoy it more, we candidly confess that we preferred their style of dancing to the other. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Podder behindhand in earning laurels wherewith to garnish himself and ❋ Unknown (2007)

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 ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not to be behindhand in the sociality of the evening, he complies and gives them “Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is demonstrated that the law of the Jews knew nothing of all this; they were behindhand with everything — a truth of which we are convinced, however little the progress we have made in Oriental knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2007)