dead march
Example Sentences
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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
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
As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, alone in Flanders, there was still music in the streets, even if it was often a dead march.
From Young Hilda at the Wars by Arthur Gleason
"Sounds like a dead march done in ragtime," suggested Nan, whose ear was said to be faulty.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
