double march

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Making a double march of it, we first stopped to breakfast at the quiet little settlement of Inenge, where cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the villagers were living on calabash seeds.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning

A number of people—ladies, men, and children—came into the bungalow at 2 o'clock, having made a double march and overtaken us; so we are very closely packed, even the verandah being occupied.

From Three Months of My Life by Foster, J. F.

After a good sleep we started to put in another double march and then we began to feel the effects of the wind.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

We were anxious to push on as fast as possible, and determined to do a double march from here to Tinki Dzong, which our transport drivers said they could do quite easily.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

He thought of the double march which was going on at that moment in the dark,—crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on the other.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence