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Meanings of stay fast in English

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Usage of stay fast in English
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This phone is so fast that it'll stay fast for a long time.
The Verge
2
He'll stay fast enough as long as Charity plays the organ!
The Calling of Dan Matthews
3
If you made that sheet fast with an extra turn, why didn't it stay fast?
Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories / Chosen and Edited By ...
4
She was fast, and must stay fast.
More English Fairy Tales
5
Why in hell didn't it stay fast?
When God Laughs, and Other Stories
6
If you made that sheet fast with an extra turn, why in hell didn't it stay fast?
When God Laughs, and Other Stories
7
He must stay fast against everything!
The Happy End
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Listen, Ben: if by me you stay fast and I slay my enemy, five hundred dollars shall be yours.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win
9
Why didn't it stay fast?
Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories / Chosen and Edited By ...
10
But one of us must have leave to go and fetch it: the other two will stay fast bound until the morning dawns.
The Story of Siegfried
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They stick those hairs right into the hard bark of trees, and if you pull, the hairs stay fast and it kills the bug.
A Girl of the Limberlost
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Cloth, perhaps?' He gave the lid another experimental tug but it stayed fast.
Sovereign
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Petronilla had never before stood against her, but she stayed fast, her arms out.
The Secret Eleanor
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She stayed fast in the doorway.
Discord's apple
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It consisted of the more enduring ice in the bays and the sea-ice along the coast, which only stayed fast for the season.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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We had come where the stair no farther ascends, and we were stayed fast even as a ship that arrives at the shore.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory
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Stay fast across language varieties
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