double march

Example Sentences

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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

Again, the next day, we made a double march.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

Making a double march of it, we first stopped to breakfast at the quiet little settlement of Inenge, where cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the villagers were living on calabash seeds.

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

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

A number of people—ladies, men, and children—came into the bungalow at 2 o'clock, having made a double march and overtaken us; so we are very closely packed, even the verandah being occupied.

From Three Months of My Life by Foster, J. F.