Citations:devil take the hindmost
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English citations of devil take the hindmost
- Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
- Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
- Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
- Are bent like drums;
- The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
- ‘Bethankit’ hums.
- Robert Burns, "To a Haggis", 1787