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
And as from respectable circles young men and old are falling in line of procession, all the drums of woe begin to beat the dead march of ten thousand souls.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
As he took his place in the cart the drums began to beat the dead march, and the procession moved slowly away.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster
