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

We were now under way; at a funeral pace, but still under way.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Donne, William Bodham

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 Gibbs, Philip

I call him—we shall never get there at such a funeral pace.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater