funeral pace

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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

A funeral pace was the utmost that could be expected from travellers so particular about their accommodations as these luxurious senators. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

We were now under way; at a funeral pace, but still under way.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Marian disconsolately went down stairs, looking wistfully at the library door as she went past it, and, at a funeral pace, promenaded along the terrace.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Still slower the jig has fallen almost to funeral pace, has grown to a new song of its own, though, to be sure, brief reminders of the first dance jingle softly here and there.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.