dead march
Example Sentences
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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
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
As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have moved majestically down the pathway of the ages, but it culminates in the dead march of Saul.
From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth
The band plays a dead march going to the grave, but Fra Diavolo coming from it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
