A slow march to be played for funeral processions.
1Celia looked through the lattice-work and whistled a dead march.
2But there was no quickening step as the house was neared-itwas a dead march.
3The triumphal procession had become almost a dead march.
4A captain's guard marched before the coffin, their firelocks reversed, and the drums beating the dead march.
5After marching in column through intervening woods, with bands playing the dead march, we entered an extensive field.
6He walked to the scaffold with his hands bound before him, and two boys played his dead march on drums.
7Bid your band silence that dead march, or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strains.
8After supper, waltzes were danced, in a style that reminded me of soldiers marching in cadence to the dead march in Saul.
9The father expected to die by the hands of the angry crowd below, but they, awed, went home at a dead march.
10We were at a funeral this morning, to the tune of a dead march-wereturn, this afternoon, to that of a quick-step.
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12A captain's guard marched before the corpse, the captain of it in the rear, the firelocks reversed, the drums beating the dead march.
13The dead march was then heard, and its melancholy sounds were mingled with those of a muffled peal tolled from the neighbouring cathedral.
14Next appeared, slowly keeping time to a dead march, five thousand decapitated criminals, each carrying his own head by its long tail of hair.
15At this his good lady takes umbrage, and something very like a quarrel ensues, on which Trimalchio bids the musicians strike up a dead march.
16Supposing the tune allotted to him was the ' Dead March' in 'Saul.'
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