dead march

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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he was draped with black crepe and, while the crowd stood silent and a band began a dead march, the gelding walked slowly around the full circuit of the track.

From Time Magazine Archive

For three and a half hours no character walks faster than a dead march or speaks faster than five words a minute.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the while Azzie played her solemn dead march.

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Vosburgh, R. G.

The band plays a dead march going to the grave, but Fra Diavolo coming from it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various