"For one thing," he said, "one gets terribly behindhand with English news.

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!

We've got to get an everlasting hustle on us, that's all; and I'm afraid we are beginning a little behindhand in the race.

State publicly that you will not appoint any to office who are not good scholars, always punctual, and always prepared; and when any boy who holds an office is going behindhand in his studies, say to him kindly, "You have not time to get your lessons, and I am afraid it is owing to the fact that you spend so much time in helping me.