Sentence examples for was stuck fast from inspiring English sources
The giant jerked away so suddenly, when he was injured, that Ketill lost hold of the axe and it was stuck fast in the wound.
But a lot of Python was stuck fast in the public-school-Oxbridge ethos, the comedy of the schoolroom, the naughtiness of playing foolish japes on figures of authority.
When I first moved to Kent from Dublin in my 20s, I was stuck fast in depression and solipsism, quite unable to see that the mundane rural and coastal scenery of the southeast was still fraught with reminders of garish and violent history.
Consider these lines from the Iliad, in Richmond Lattimore's awkwardly powerful translation: "He cried out then, a great city, broken, the spear in him, / and fell, thunderously, and the spear in his heart was stuck fast / but the heart was panting still and beating to shake the butt end / of the spear".
The mare - called Kiparra - was finally found by her owners in a remote corner of a farm in the Blue Mountains but was stuck fast and completely exhausted.
Agincourt was stuck fast and had to be lightened; her guns were removed and much of her coal was tossed overboard before she was towed off by, commanded by Lord Gilford, four days later.
Although winter is closing in, the captain sails northward into the Arctic until his ship is stuck fast.
Even though the base rate has been stuck fast at 0.5 per cent for the past 27 months, the interest rate charged by banks and building societies for personal loans is at the highest level for over a decade.
Typically, you are trying to drop a long throw into six square feet of clear space, and if you miss you will be stuck fast to nymphaeaceous stems and cursing.
He really is a schoolmate, and he wants to be a friend; yet he is also a madman, with the adhesive glaze of the deranged, and Michel is stuck fast.
The New Yorker, October 6, 1951 P. 28 Incidental Intelligence: A playing card, the eight of spades, is stuck fast to the lofty, gold-ornamented ceiling of the East Ballroom of the Hotel Commodore.
