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 there is such a thing as asking Him to take them, and holding them out to Him, and yet keeping fast hold of the other end ourselves.
From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah
"Tell us about the picnics you used to have when you were young," said Julia Prime, balancing herself on the window-sill and keeping fast hold of Mrs. Gray's hand.
From A Little Country Girl by Coolidge, Susan
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 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
