dead march

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As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.

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

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

All the while Azzie played her solemn dead march.

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Vosburgh, R. G.

Here, alone in Flanders, there was still music in the streets, even if it was often a dead march.

From Young Hilda at the Wars by Gleason, Arthur