funeral pace

Example Sentences

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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

The fast trot of the horses was a funeral pace to the flight of my excited and anxious imagination.

From Blindfolded by Walcott, Earle Ashley

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

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

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

I progressed, though slowly, and at last was sufficiently disengaged from my task to count the minutes moving at their funeral pace to the end of the meal.

From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)