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
The fast trot of the horses was a funeral pace to the flight of my excited and anxious imagination.
From Blindfolded by Walcott, Earle Ashley
We were now under way; at a funeral pace, but still under way.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Meredith, George
Having climbed into the buggy they advanced at a funeral pace, leaving it to the sagacity of the horse to keep the track.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
