double march
Example Sentences
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The mounted troops, who remained at Wad Hamed till all had gone south, were ordered to move on the 27th of August, and by a double march catch up the rest of the army.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston
After a good sleep we started to put in another double march and then we began to feel the effects of the wind.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
Next day we pushed on a double march through the forest, and reached a nullah.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
A double march brought us to Camp Abruzzi, 86° 38´, named in honor of the farthest north of the Duke of the Abruzzi.
From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
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
