dead march
Example Sentences
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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
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.
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
The triumphal procession had become almost a dead march.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel
Three such men at a country frolic would have turned an old Virginia reel into a dead march.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
