double march

Example Sentences

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Again, the next day, we made a double march.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

We marched that day to Hoopar Pari, making a double march instead of halting at Gurkuch.

From With Kelly to Chitral by Beynon, William George Laurence

Pootoollah for Mailmandah, and on our arrival found some of the troops and the cavalry had passed through and made a double march to the river Lora, a distance in all of twenty-four miles. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

He thought of the double march which was going on at that moment in the dark,—crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on the other.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Making a double march of it, we first stopped to breakfast at the quiet little settlement of Inenge, where cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the villagers were living on calabash seeds.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning