funeral pace
Example Sentences
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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
Marian disconsolately went down stairs, looking wistfully at the library door as she went past it, and, at a funeral pace, promenaded along the terrace.
From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I call him—we shall never get there at such a funeral pace.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
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 — Complete by George Meredith
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
