keeping fast
Example Sentences
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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
He forced his way to the door, the boy still keeping fast hold of his arm.
From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.
The Indian way of catching sturgeon, when they came into the narrow part of the rivers, was by a man's clapping a noose over their tails and by keeping fast his hold.
From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James
But she herself stood still, keeping fast her hold.
From The Gold of Chickaree by Warner, Susan
If, then, the enemy attacked, the ships, by simply keeping fast the springs and veering the cables, would swing with their broadsides facing east.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
