funeral pace
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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
We were now under way; at a funeral pace, but still under way.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
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 — Volume 2 by George Meredith
He went slower still, at a funeral pace, and looking back into the ambulance said "Ça y est, mon vieux… Bon courage!"
From The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs
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