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
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
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
"I, for one, would like nothing better," said Mr. Travilla, offering his arm to Adelaide, while Mr. Dinsmore took Mrs. Travilla, Elsie walking on the other side and keeping fast hold of his hand.
From Holidays at Roselands by Finley, Martha
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)
