Young Porter was not behindhand in the fight, but lent his boyish aid to the vindication of American sailors' rights.
The "Guerriere" was not behindhand in her preparations for action.
The lads that have won for England her supremacy upon the seas have never been behindhand at swarming up the sides of an enemy, leaping his taffrail, and meeting him on his own deck with the cold steel.
Doubtless he felt the contrast between his worldly view of matrimony and the higher standard of antiquity, though he would certainly have refused to admit that he was behindhand in the struggle against sensuality.
On their side the Catholics, for instance, Hans Salat of Lucern or the convert Johann Engerd, were also not behindhand in this respect.
I'm afraid I ought not to have let him do that, but we're rather behindhand tonight.
Indeed, this was at my father's bidding, who wasn't a bit behindhand with any of them in cutting a dash.
You ought to see and get hold of a steamboat yourself, Soren; we mustn't be behindhand with everything, you know.
She was glad no one could say she had been behindhand with her service, but it was a burthen to her, and she did not open her mind to enter into it so as to make it otherwise.
Rome, behindhand in most things, is behindhand in railways.
On the other hand, Louis was not behindhand in enforcing obedience by persecution wherever he had the power.
Idle persons (servants or others) do cast themselves behindhand in their work, and then say, they have no time to pray or read the Scripture.
No people talked or acted more grossly than the finest gentlemen of the day, or believed more ill of one another; and it was not to be expected that the uneducated should be behindhand with them.
It will be pointed out to the parents that their children are behindhand in their lessons.
How many years behindhand do you consider him in school instruction compared with average children of the same age?
In other terms, the psychological examination is capable of showing that he is normal, even when he is behindhand in his studies.
Jan was behindhand in spelling, but to copy figures was no difficulty to him.
It was a great and important time to Abel when Jan learned to walk; but, as he was neither precocious nor behindhand in this respect, his biographer may be pardoned for not dwelling on it at any length.
Yes, but I'm not behindhand either," exclaimed Cerizet.
This is now all changed, and the Peninsula boasts its band of dealers as well organized as any in Europe; nor is it behindhand in their shadows--the fabricators of fraudulent specimens of the kinds most in request.
However, the public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture.
And it held this position until the Lutheran Reformation, when it was recognised as another means for justifying the marriage of the clergy; whereupon the Catholic party did not dare to remain behindhand in the matter.
I shall now show you that I am not at all behindhand in ingenuity.
The lads, and even the dogs, were not behindhand in testifying their gratification at the appearance of their new friend--the former delighted at the idea of a fresh companion, and the latter won by her sweet voice and appearance.
I will send the workmen in tomorrow," answered the landlord, not wishing to bebehindhand in this contest of good offices.
During this colloquy in a public thoroughfare, Vicomte Paul was awaiting his new mistress, who was behindhand in her appointment, and decidedly disagreeable towards him.
He felt when she was a little behindhand in keeping her appointment an impatience that delighted her, and he even wrote her letters the language of which was enough to give her hopes that she would speedily become his legitimate mistress.
Schaunard, not willing to be behindhand in courtesy, called for an extra quart of wine.
Not that he was behindhand with that part of his duties.
Neither was the horse behindhand in the race; for, though he carried a heavy load, he galloped like the wind after his master, plunging and bounding forward with as much freedom as if he had nothing at all on his back.
Wherefore I will place a band of them under your command, who will follow you whithersoever you go, and who will not be behindhand even with the Fena in facing hardship and danger.
The Eastern Counties are the most behindhand in the science, although they have good rivers in the Orwell and Yare.
Suppose a crew are backward as oarsmen and also behindhand in condition.
