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

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)

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

Then, edging slightly round, and drawing in the boots, he made a half-face towards me—still, however, keeping fast to his chair.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne