What is "latecomer"

Usage examples of "latecomer".

While the latecomers were sitting down, Randall Bragg came in and walked alone down the center aisle and sat in the front row.

Latecomers were still vying for a passage into the already overpacked courtyard and entryway below and a great crowd stood in the streets outside the house, straining to catch the words of the Master.

In the beginning they had walked, meeting many latecomers to Clermont still on the road, although there were larger groups wending their way homeward to settle their affairs before taking up the cross.

As it was, Yezid had to wait another few minutes for the rest of the latecomers to straggle in before herding the cloning section to the main hall, where the other sections were also assembling.

The two men, latecomers, paused in the doorway to look around them and the elder of them, a short stout man with a fringe of grey hair surrounding a bald head, gave a rich chuckle.

As far as latecomers like me are concerned those kingdoms might not even exist!

The bad news was, of course, wonderful news to the lawyers, and the frenzy heated up as more and more latecomers piled on.

That no doubt accounted for some of the drop in traditional sales this year, too, as latecomers to the fad picked up their units, but damn it, most people already had their Backspacer.

I looked back at the cursing driver in time to see him close the door on another latecomer, a cove in a brown suit and bowler who was demanding that he open it again, but jarvey wasn't having any, and the bus rolled off with the fellow staring after us through the glass.

Latecomers will have to make do with shoe blacking or browning as the case may be.

Beer halls had been converted into mess halls and the latecomer, the First Airlift Task Force, took a block on Taunusstrasse with shops and apartments and converted it into a makeshift command post.

To Raymond's chagrin, the noblemen liked this plainspeaking barbarian lord and his outrageous suggestion that the latecomers should share in the plunder.

As latecomers took their seats, he picked up the chalk and began spinning it rapidly through his fingers in a manner of a professional gambler playing with a poker chip, still smiling happily as if at some secret joke.

The latecomer crossed the open space between the partisans with a long, silent stride, made a deferential obeisance to the presiding bishop, who received it with a questioning frown and the merest severe inclination of his head, and bent to kiss the kings hand, all without compromising for an instant his own black dignity.

It seemed to him likely that the whatever-it-was _meisterii_ had some sort of division-of-labor principle built into it, since Gumbs and he--the first two to fall in--had kept their sight without making any special effort in that direction, while matters like hearing and touch had been left for the latecomers.