dead march
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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
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
As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hamlet," Fortinbras says: "Go bid the soldiers shoot," and the stage direction runs: "A dead march.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
Standing before his door, he watched the procession as it passed up the street, preceded by the band playing a dead march, sometimes interrupted by a whining chant or dirge.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
