funeral pace
Example Sentences
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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
Having climbed into the buggy they advanced at a funeral pace, leaving it to the sagacity of the horse to keep the track.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
The fast trot of the horses was a funeral pace to the flight of my excited and anxious imagination.
From Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott
I progressed, though slowly, and at last was sufficiently disengaged from my task to count the minutes moving at their funeral pace to the end of the meal.
From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
