dead march

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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he was draped with black crepe and, while the crowd stood silent and a band began a dead march, the gelding walked slowly around the full circuit of the track.

From Time Magazine Archive

For three and a half hours no character walks faster than a dead march or speaks faster than five words a minute.

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If the dead march in Saul had been playing before us all the way, we could not have marched more gravely, or rather18 sulkily, to our inn.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

Having thus thrown down his gauntlet, the musicians played a dead march, and there was certainly something wild and fearful in the association produced by these strains of death and the fatality of encountering him.

From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William