Indeed, she had fastened onto our house with the tenacity of a monomaniacal abalone.
She had fastened her hair with a rubber band to prevent it from spilling over her face.
Just before the part where the filth get Terence Stamp and put him where he belongs she had fastened her heels behind his back and my father, surprised, had slipped and grunted into her, presenting her with literally millions of possibilities, of which she chose only one.
"Venus has fastened on me like a tiger," she says, her hand falling across her abdomen, and you believe her.
And, judging by his questions this morning, it is this invention that Kennedy has fastened on.
The stiff ceremony that has fastened itself to classical music in the past century recedes.
So far, Naxos has fastened on Arthur Foote, as docile a musician as MacDowell and Strong were Romantically effulgent.
Phèdre, guilt-ridden over her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, cries: "Venus has fastened on me like a tiger".
Mr. Biden has fastened onto missile defense as the centerpiece of his critique of Bush foreign policy.
But he never attracted the hostility that has fastened on Mr Bush, at least since the Iraq war.
