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 George MacDonald
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 Susan Warner
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 F. Anstey
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 Constance Garnett
