funeral pace

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 William Bodham Donne

He went slower still, at a funeral pace, and looking back into the ambulance said "Ça y est, mon vieux… Bon courage!"

From The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

The fast trot of the horses was a funeral pace to the flight of my excited and anxious imagination.

From Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

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 — Volume 2 by George Meredith