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Marching

noun

The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind). Synonym: march. "We heard the sound of marching"

March

verb

(past & past part. marched; pres. part. marching)

March in a procession. Synonym: process.

Force to march.

Walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride. "The soldiers marched across the border"

March in protest; take part in a demonstration. Synonym: demonstrate.

Walk ostentatiously. Synonyms: exhibit, parade.

Cause to march or go at a marching pace.

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary. Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge. "England marches with Scotland"

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"Marching" Quotes from Famous Books

... put the company through half a dozen movements of the manual of arms, next marching the company away in column of fours. The regulars, of course, responded like clockwork. They made a fine appearance as they started off under their freakish second lieutenant. Ere they had gone far Ferrers swung them into column of twos at ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... fled up to her mother. Grandet, after marching two or three times round the garden in the snow without heeding the cold, suddenly suspected that his daughter had gone to her mother; only too happy to find her disobedient to his orders, he climbed the stairs with the agility of a cat and appeared in Madame ...

— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac

... flashing of steel and the intermingling of blue and white uniforms. The troops were leaving the cars and were forming in line to pass the barricades; the officers marching in front, the compact mass following elbow to elbow, their eyes straight before them, their muskets ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

... motion, the troops of every county moving as by one impulse to Carlisle. Yet there were some of England's noblest barons in whose breasts a species of admiration, even affection, was at work towards the very man they were now marching to destroy, and this was frequently the case in the ages of chivalry. Fickle as the character of Robert Bruce had appeared to be, there was that in it which had ever attracted, riveted the regard of many of the noble spirits in King ...

— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... on his shoulder; and there an itinerant Swiss jeweller. On this side, heralded by a blast of clarions and bugles, appears a train of wagons, conveying all the wild beasts of a caravan; and on that, a company of summer soldiers, marching from village to village on a festival campaign, attended by the "brass band." Now look at the scene, and it presents an emblem of the mysterious confusion, the apparently insolvable riddle, in which individuals, or the great world itself, seem often to be involved. What miracle shall set all ...

— The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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