The hold-fast pedal foot "retenders" have a installation procedure that does not mention removing the legs from my skinny jeans above the knee... the pictures imply that this happens at some point during installation of the product. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
In my own anecdotal way, I've noticed the yellow jacket constructions on my patio are bigger every year, and this year's has so many amazons they stud the boarding around it, unable to find a hold-fast on the nest itself. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)
While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth: ❋ Unknown (2004)
At this dark moment of discouragement there seemed, even to her hold-fast nature, no way out. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mott had never been one to justify the vast NASA program because it had provided stick-free Teflon frying pans to housewives or Velcro hold-fast fabrics to vaudeville performers, enabling them to appear in funny break-away costumes. ❋ Michener, James (1982)
Man, says Montaigne, has no hold-fast, no firm and fixed point, within himself, in spite of his apparently splendid outfit. ❋ Jacob Feis (N/A)
Anal foot: applied to the tip of the body in larval Chironomids, which is modified to serve as a hold-fast. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)
Men are like nails, some have the hold-fast will in their heads. ❋ Davis, James J (1922)
While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth: 555 ❋ Unknown (1914)
But it is a rash and wavering fire, waving and divers: the fire of an ague subject to fits and stints, and that hath but slender hold-fast of us. ❋ Unknown (1909)
'I am an old fighting man,' our visitor answered, screwing his pipe together, 'a lean old dog of the hold-fast breed. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Without that hold-fast, we shall be swept away by storms of calamity or by gusts of passion. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
There are three things to be chiefly noticed in the otter -- first, the great width of the upper nostril; secondly, the length and sharpness of the hold-fast teeth; and, thirdly, the sturdiness and roundness of the chest or barrel, expressive of singular strength. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
You are perpetually trying the strength of the rope, when a like trouble would render it a sure hold-fast. ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)
_ I know you have, my lord; but while I was managing this young robustious fellow, that old spark, who was nothing but skin and bone, and by consequence very nimble, slipt through my fingers like an eel, for there was no hold-fast of him, and ran away to buy himself a new master. ❋ John Dryden (1665)
