单词 | dead march |
例句 | As each day passed, some poor fellow was carried to his grave; the dead march played, and all that remained of our comrade was consigned to the grave. Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers 2011-09-29T02:00:13.017Z Each man held his gun up-side down, as a sign that the dead would war no more, and the drums beat the dead march. The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable 2011-05-23T02:00:10.807Z For every stroke of the clock is a death-bell sounding out a dead march for the wreck of his fairer hours. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z They tuned up their bass viols and played their dead march. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The pipers of the Forty-Second and Ninety-Third, with muffled drums, played The Flowers of the Forest as a dead march. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude This morning at 8 A. M. we buried the remains of Mr. Gordon, the coffin borne on a caisson followed by martial band of 48th Infantry playing the dead march. An Artilleryman's Diary Anne sang it correctly without accompaniment, but slowly and solemnly as a dead march. Anne The strains of the organ as it rendered the dead march in Saul filled the edifice, the congregation rose to its feet, the casket was borne out, and the service was at an end. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin Standing before his door, he watched the procession as it passed up the street, preceded by the band playing a dead march, sometimes interrupted by a whining chant or dirge. Black Forest Village Stories As he took his place in the cart the drums began to beat the dead march, and the procession moved slowly away. Peggy Owen and Liberty Mr. Flint chuckles when he gets back to his desk, and seems to enjoy it immensely, for he drums out an exhilarating dead march with his long, wiry fingers on the cover of the letter-book. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It "Sounds like a dead march done in ragtime," suggested Nan, whose ear was said to be faulty. Otherwise Phyllis All depart to the music of a dead march. Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare They have moved majestically down the pathway of the ages, but it culminates in the dead march of Saul. The Vanishing Race For several days this dead march was kept up, Boone looking every hour for his chance of escape. The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman It sounds more like a dead march, dull and dreary— The one in "Saul," or Verdi's Miserere. Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx Here, alone in Flanders, there was still music in the streets, even if it was often a dead march. Young Hilda at the Wars The procession moving slowly through close ranks of Horse and Foot Guards holding tapers and torches in their hands, whilst at intervals the bands played a dead march, had, however, a very imposing effect. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony After marching in column through intervening woods, with bands playing the dead march, we entered an extensive field. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson If the dead march in Saul had been playing before us all the way, we could not have marched more gravely, or rather18 sulkily, to our inn. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. Three such men at a country frolic would have turned an old Virginia reel into a dead march. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) But there was no quickening step as the house was neared—it was a dead march. An Arkansas Planter The triumphal procession had become almost a dead march. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Having thus thrown down his gauntlet, the musicians played a dead march, and there was certainly something wild and fearful in the association produced by these strains of death and the fatality of encountering him. The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Hamlet," Fortinbras says: "Go bid the soldiers shoot," and the stage direction runs: "A dead march. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character After this the procession will begin, the troops marching by platoons in inverted order and with arms reversed to the place of interment, the drums muffled and the music playing a dead march. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. Bid your band silence that dead march, or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strains. Twice Told Tales And as from respectable circles young men and old are falling in line of procession, all the drums of woe begin to beat the dead march of ten thousand souls. The Abominations of Modern Society At twenty minutes to twelve o'clock, the black flag was removed from the inn window, the muffled drums beat, and the music played the same dead march as on the days of uttering the challenge. The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two We need only a band and a dead march to make a funeral of this! Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz She consented; and after a short absence reappeared, to the sad tender music of the dead march, in the form of the royal widow, with measured step, carrying an urn of ashes before her. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes There'll be a procession—bands—dead march—bells tolling—all the girls in tears—Yum-Yum distracted—then, when it's all over, general rejoicings, and a display of fireworks in the evening. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan They got into a four wheeler and they said "cabby drive as fast as you can," not knowing that four wheelers never go faster than a dead march—" to— "where do you think? Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis And what then? the colours reversed, the drums muffled, The black nodding plumes, the dead march and the pall, The stern faces, soldier-like, silent, unruffled, The slow sacred music that floats over all! Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon 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. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius A captain's guard marched before the corpse, the captain of it in the rear, the firelocks reversed, the drums beating the dead march. Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Before this act was a dead march played, during which entered on the stage Renuchio, Captain of the Guard, attended upon by the guard. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 A captain's guard marched before the coffin, their firelocks reversed, and the drums beating the dead march. A Soldier of Virginia The father expected to die by the hands of the angry crowd below, but they, awed, went home at a dead march. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland The soldier steps solemn and formal, as if the dead march in Saul was a playin'. Nature and Human Nature Indeed, I was in that savage moody state, that my mind was quite made up to the point, and I looked to hear my own dead march played as sure as I was alive. Barry Lyndon It consisted of the band of the York Hussars playing a dead march; next two soldiers of that regiment in a mourning coach, guarded on each side, and accompanied by two priests. Life's Little Ironies He walked to the scaffold with his hands bound before him, and two boys played his dead march on drums. A History of the Moravian Church After supper, waltzes were danced, in a style that reminded me of soldiers marching in cadence to the dead march in Saul. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North Beat the drum slowly, Play the fife lowly, Sound the dead march as you bear me along. Lin McLean |
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