dead march
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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
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
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
And as from respectable circles young men and old are falling in line of procession, all the drums of woe begin to beat the dead march of ten thousand souls.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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
