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 boarded one, and scrambled to the top of it, keeping fast hold of the end of his line, which unrolled from the barrel as he ascended.
From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George
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 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 the door was shut on Maria, who had concealed the doll under her cloak, she hid herself under the couch, keeping fast hold of the string which was fastened to its head.
From The Crimson Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
