route-march

Like Helena, she gave the impression that she could route-march through half a dozen markets, spend with panache, and then carry her own purchases home.

Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

Dusty, sweating from its long route-march, the procession snaked round the houses.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

The colonel, having shaved, felt ready for the fray again, dictated the route-march orders, and told me to fix 11.30 A.M. as the time of starting.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The colonel stood and accepted the salutes of his batteries, and criticised points of turn-out and horse-mastership as though he were making an ordinary route-march inspection.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Under the kitchen block is a basement containing the boiler for heating the dining-rooms and another for the supply of hot water to baths and sinks, with in some cases also a hot-air furnace for heating drying-rooms, for drying the men's clothing when they come in wet from a route-march or field day.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The regiment was to parade for a long route-march, and all units were to be in attendance.

The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926

Then we either march away, and drill and exercise over the veldt, or go for a route-march to some distance.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

We had a route-march over the pass through the mountains, a lovely ride, reminding me of the Dordogne.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

By the way, the only live rebel I ever saw was the owner of a farm, near which we halted during one sultry dusty route-march.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

[Illustration: _Rearguard Officer of Demobilization (collecting stragglers on route-march).

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 Various