keeping fast

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He's keeping fast company, part of a jazz quartet that also includes drummer Billy Higgins, trumpeter Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who is exploring the outside edge of the stratosphere with his alto sax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, edging slightly round, and drawing in the boots, he made a half-face towards me—still, however, keeping fast to his chair.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

And, anciently, there existed what is called the Orphic Life, men keeping fast to all things without life, and abstaining wholly from those that had.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

So, says Isaiah, with singularly daring imagery, God will put all His strength into keeping fast hold of Israel, and no one can pluck His people from His hands.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

And Katipah, keeping fast hold of the string, would watch where it mounted and looked so small, and think that surely some day her kite would bring her the only thing she much cared about.

From The Blue Moon by Housman, Laurence