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

There was a stay of proceedings while they looked at her, both parties keeping fast hold however, and both tongues at once combating for hearing and belief.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

My son," said Elspat, keeping fast hold of his hand, "what is done cannot be recalled.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir

"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

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)