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
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
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
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
Hans, keeping fast by the helm, let the raft run on, which, after all, needed no steering, the wind blowing directly aft.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
