funeral pace

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

She had a dim remembrance of words ensuing: 'ceremonies going at a funeral pace... on the highway to the solidest kind of union:'—Yes, he wrote: 'I leave you to...'

From Celt and Saxon — Complete by George Meredith

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

Still slower the jig has fallen almost to funeral pace, has grown to a new song of its own, though, to be sure, brief reminders of the first dance jingle softly here and there.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

A funeral pace was the utmost that could be expected from travellers so particular about their accommodations as these luxurious senators. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne