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Meanings of fast aground in English
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Usage of fast aground in English
1
Unfortunately my fears had proved correct; the fleet was hard and fast aground!
2
At length the diahbeeah, which drew only two feet three inches, was fast aground!
3
All that could, hurried aboard, but they were unable to push off, being fast aground.
4
Here we are five hours out, and fast aground!
5
Now, fast aground, she saw her absent-minded error.
6
She drifted, however, through the shipping, and presently brought up alongside one of the vessels fast aground.
7
We stuck fast aground on a sand-bar.
8
We were hard and fast aground!
9
But just at that moment she ran upon a shelving rock, and in an instant was hard and fast aground.
10
The passage to St. Louis occupied eight days, during about a third of which we were fast aground on sand-bars.
11
A short time later, in trying to pass the Confederate batteries at Port Hudson, the Mississippi ran hard and fast aground.
12
When the battle ended for the night, the "Augusta," and the "Merlin," sloop-of-war, were left hard and fast aground.
13
The ship was hard and fast aground now, and we pulled up abreast of her slowly, having no mind to share her fate.
14
" Fast aground till a squall comes along and breaks you up," he said, as if speaking to the vessel.
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Fast aground across language varieties
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