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

"No, we ain' goin' let the Yankees have our papa," chimed in Evelyn, pushing her tangled hair out of her eyes, and keeping fast hold of Charlie's hand for fear of the horses around her.

From A Captured Santa Claus by Page, Thomas Nelson

But she herself stood still, keeping fast her hold.

From The Gold of Chickaree by Warner, 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