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)

When all was settled we marched, one thousand strong, to Wurungi; and next day, by a double march, arrived at Marson, in the Bari country.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning

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

We were anxious to push on as fast as possible, and determined to do a double march from here to Tinki Dzong, which our transport drivers said they could do quite easily.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth