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

Were I to picture Saint Peter, keeping fast the gate of heaven, and frowning, more stern than pitiful, on the wretched applicants, that face should be my study.

From Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Away into the forest they went, the seid woman keeping fast hold of Egwina’s hand, and speaking not.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

When Muzzio had finished, and still keeping fast the violin between his chin and his shoulder, dropped the hand that held the bow, 'What is that?

From Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Garnett, Constance

From Peter these I hold, of him instructed, that I err163 Rather in opening than in keeping fast, So but the suppliant at my feet implore.'

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)