"Funeral march" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... within its keeping cuirass and spear and the caparisons of war, the oppressed mind is beset as by a heavy sound, gathering up from the abysses, deeper, more dread and mysterious than the death-march of heroes—the funeral march of the empires of the world, the requiem of faiths, dead yet not dead, of creeds, institutions, religions, governments, laws—till through Time's shadows the Eternal breaks, in silence sweeter than all music, in a darkness ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb
... against the ebbing heart of the unseen, and awaited Death. Suddenly an odd fancy possessed her. Where was Death? Why was he tarrying? Who was detaining him? From what quarter would he come? He was taking his leisure, drawing near with footsteps as measured as those of men keeping time to a funeral march. By a wayward deflection she thought of the slow music that was always turned on in the theatre when the heroine was about to appear, or something eventful to happen. She had always thought that sort of thing ridiculous and ...
— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton
... though stepping to a funeral march, She passed defeated homewards whence she came Ragged with tattered canvas white as starch, A wild bird that ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)
... the party of chasing pursuers is relieved from a stay by all deemed so irksome. Remounting their horses, they leave the scene of their reluctant halt, and continue the pursuit silently, as if moving in funeral march. ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid
... ere long a messenger came, Bringing the sad, sad story— A riderless horse: a funeral march: Dead ...
— Diddie, Dumps, and Tot • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle |
