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

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

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

But when it was restored, Markham went on spying in silence, while Brown, keeping fast possession of his own telescope, communicated his observations.

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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