I was fairly confident that my resolve could hold out (the noun "fast" and the adjective have the same etymological root, in the concept of firmness), but not everyone blows off the serpent.
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He smiles and shakes my hand with unexpected firmness.
Before her angry ardour, I lost the firmness of my tackle and my finishing flopped.
I had fun playing with the control wand, trying to find my ideal level of firmness.
Maxwell gripped my arm with surprising firmness, as if to say, hold on.
"Paoli," he wrote to Rousseau, "has infused my soul with a firmness that it will never lose". Arriving back in Britain in early 1766, Boswell talked of nothing but Corsica and Paoli to his literary acquaintances, and they urged him to write a book.
"I still have some firmness in my ass when I touch it," he said.
In short, I had not the firmness to restrain my tongue from speaking to him, and did not consider it polite to turn away my face from his conversation, he being a congenial friend and sincerely affectionate.
