dead-march

It is like the dead-march of a gnat amid the trumpeting of elephants and the roaring of lions.

Chapter 35 2010

He opened his eyes to look for the girl, but the sunset had become much brighter; his head began to pound with the slow regularity of a dead-march, and he closed his eyes again in a hurry.

The Impossibles Laurence M. Janifer 1967

He opened his eyes to look for the girl, but the sunset had become much brighter; his head began to pound with the slow regularity of a dead-march and he closed his eyes again in a hurry.

Out Like a Light Randall Garrett 1957

It is like the dead-march of a gnat amid the trumpeting of elephants and the roaring of lions.

Chapter 35 1908

Finally, after making repeated circuits about him just out of his reach, now at a dead-march gait, and then with lightning speed as if trying to make him twist his own neck off.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

I heard the dead-march rolling from the drums, and saw them passing, black against the sunrise ....

The Hidden Children 1899

My heart has tuned it with the muffled dead-march drum!

Debris Selections from Poems Madge Morris Wagner 1893

The wretched boy who had played the dead-march on his fife at the murder of Helfenstein, was chained to a post, a fire was kindled around him, and the knights looked on, laughing at his horrible contortions.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

The condemned soldier was marched between the ranks of the command, preceded by a drum and fife band, playing the "dead-march," and then was taken to the coffin, where he was blindfolded and required to stand in front of six men armed with rifles, five only of which were loaded with ball.

Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884

Without, the winter's rain beat a low dead-march on the great windows, and the southwest wind sighed out its vast breath along the castle walls.

Taquisara 1881