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
By the time she had done speaking, Zeppa, still keeping fast hold of her, was beside the chest, in which her husband was locked.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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
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
