funeral pace

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Of the 355 parading oldsters, whose average age was 92, only 170 crickety survivors of the mighty march of 1883 were able to hobble along at a funeral pace under their own power.

From Time Magazine Archive

A funeral pace was the utmost that could be expected from travellers so particular about their accommodations as these luxurious senators. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

I progressed, though slowly, and at last was sufficiently disengaged from my task to count the minutes moving at their funeral pace to the end of the meal.

From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

She had a dim remembrance of words ensuing: 'ceremonies going at a funeral pace... on the highway to the solidest kind of union:'—Yes, he wrote: 'I leave you to...'

From Celt and Saxon — Complete by Meredith, George

Marian disconsolately went down stairs, looking wistfully at the library door as she went past it, and, at a funeral pace, promenaded along the terrace.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Yonge, Charlotte Mary