dead march
Example Sentences
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For three and a half hours no character walks faster than a dead march or speaks faster than five words a minute.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We need only a band and a dead march to make a funeral of this!
From Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"Yes," said Jasper, "I mout whistle a dead march."
From The Starbucks by Read, Opie Percival
