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Meanings of stick fast in English

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Usage of stick fast in English
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Flies and tiny mosquitoes stick fast to the paper and disturb me.
Hunger
2
It's not meself as wants to stick fast in this black mud.
The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
3
You shall have done with Dixon and stick fast by me, or--
The Village by the River
4
The rusty sabres stick fast in the battered old scabbards.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
5
And the numbers stick fast like pegs driven into clay.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
6
I haven't a good memory, but some things stick fast.
There & Back
7
One would think that its prodigious weight would make it stick fast, and continue immoveable.
Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson / Or, A...
8
Once or twice her feet seemed to stick fast, but Pawnee Brown did not notice this.
The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
9
I only cry sometimes, when I stick fast.
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
10
Hobbled away out towards Penny Green, bobbing along on his stick fast as he could go.
If Winter Comes
11
And, now, another favour I have to ask is, that I may stick fast by you.
A True Hero: A Story of the Days of William Penn
12
Only I must not hurry, or I shall stick fast and be more lost than ever.'
Master and Man
13
Splash into pools, wade, swim, do all but stick fast till we come to Peterborough town.
A Boy's Ride
14
You'll stick fast for ever, and Leonard can't pass, so there you'll all have to stay.'
The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain
15
Uselessly we kindle the morning fires; useless are our arrows; our knives stick fast in the sheaths.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
16
I wanted Captain Spark to stick fast, and I put it on the minister's chair by mistake!
Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle
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