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noun

Fastness n.

The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness. "All... places of fastness (are) laid open."

A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

Conciseness of style. (Obs.)

The state of being fast or swift.

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Etymology of 'Fastness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fastness" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon his feet now, gazing, white and trembling, at the fate which had overtaken him even in the fastness of the labyrinthine jungle. Instinctively he turned to flee; but Tarzan of the Apes reached out a strong hand and ...

— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... revealed, and, what was more, the full deep bite and fast hold they would take of Life's entrails. A young girl's canines are self-revelatory in this respect. Let them be big and prominent, as Leonetta's were, and the fastness of her hold on Life, once she has bitten, promises to break all records. The sensitive philosopher has little patience with your fair delicate misses with small mouse-like canines. There are too many of them to begin with, and they are ...

— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici

... fell a tree with the swift surety of an executioner, and in revenge for his many arboral murders the woodland had taken captive his mind, captured and chained it as Prospero did Ariel. The resounding footsteps of Progress driven on so mercilessly in this mad age could not reach his fastness. It did not concern him that men were thinking, investigating, inventing. His senses responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of the sea does the ...

— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... situation that had placed him at enmity with her kinsfolk, yet he realized there was no help for this. The Morgans were a law unto themselves. Hardened men with a hardened code, they lived in their fastness like Ishmaelites. Counselled by their leader, old Duke Morgan, brains of the clan and influential enough to keep outside the penalties of the law themselves, their understanding with the outlaws of the Sinks was apparently complete, and the hospitality of one or ...

— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman

... to their dark fastness, and of those who came none had ever shone with such blinding ...

— Rosemary - A Christmas story • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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