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

But when it was restored, Markham went on spying in silence, while Brown, keeping fast possession of his own telescope, communicated his observations.

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"I did not even know you were in the North," she said presently, releasing her from her embrace, but still keeping fast hold of her hand, and looking down lovingly into her face.

From Holidays at Roselands by Finley, Martha

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 MacDonald, George

So, says Isaiah, with singularly daring imagery, God will put all His strength into keeping fast hold of Israel, and no one can pluck His people from His hands.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander