" Now, the real reason of the three friends being thus at fault in their investigations was simply this: they were exactly twenty-four hours behindhand in their attempt to unravel the mystery.

They treated us like wild beasts in a menagerie, and the officers and soldiers set the example while the women and children were not behindhand with abuse, and made threatening gestures.

There ain't much hope o' gettin' them mended, with Penel behindhand on the rent, an' the firin' an' the land knows what else.

The entire arc of his orbit between the point opposite to that occupied by the Earth when I started and the point of oppositionthe entire distance I had to gain as measured along his pathwas about 116 millions of miles; so that, trusting to the terrestrial impulse alone, I should be some 30 millions behindhand at the critical moment.

Sensational! CHANTECLER False hero whom Fashion has taken for leader, you walk in such terror of appearing behindhand to the eyes of your own tail that your throat is blue with it!