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