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

And Katipah, keeping fast hold of the string, would watch where it mounted and looked so small, and think that surely some day her kite would bring her the only thing she much cared about.

From The Blue Moon by Housman, Laurence

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

By the time she had done speaking, Zeppa, still keeping fast hold of her, was beside the chest, in which her husband was locked.

From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

If, then, the enemy attacked, the ships, by simply keeping fast the springs and veering the cables, would swing with their broadsides facing east.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)