funeral pace

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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

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

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

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

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

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 Meredith, George