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
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
"No, we ain' goin' let the Yankees have our papa," chimed in Evelyn, pushing her tangled hair out of her eyes, and keeping fast hold of Charlie's hand for fear of the horses around her.
From A Captured Santa Claus by Page, Thomas Nelson
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.
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
