These days before the examinations began were very difficult for everybody, and Perrin began that hideous “getting behind-hand” that made things accumulate so that there seemed no chance of ever catching up.
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Behindhand
Synonyms for "behindhand" (71 found)
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It was now the season for planting and sowing; many gardens and allotments of the villagers had already received their spring tillage; but the garden and the allotment of the Durbeyfields were behindhand.
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It was churning day, and there was baking to be done, and the mending was behindhand, and the children needed clothes […]
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I have constantly observed, that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind-hand in their politicks.
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