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

"Now I want to buy somethin' pretty for your mother," said Mr. Hilton, as they went soberly away down the street, the children keeping fast hold of his hands.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne

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

The Indian way of catching sturgeon, when they came into the narrow part of the rivers, was by a man's clapping a noose over their tails, and by keeping fast his hold.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

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 Anstey, F.