Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Firm in the earth, and difficult to be removed.
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- adjective
Firm or planted in theearth , and difficult toremove .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then those wicked men bound Edmund and shamefully insulted him and beat him with clubs, and afterward they led the faithful king to an earth-fast tree and tied him to it with hard bonds, and afterwards scourged him a long while with whips, and among the blows he was always calling with true faith on Jesus Christ.
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Then those wicked men bound Edmund and shamefully insulted him and beat him with clubs, and afterward they led the faithful king to an earth-fast tree and tied him to it with hard bonds, and afterwards scourged him a long while with whips, and among the blows he was always calling with true faith on Jesus Christ.
Archive 2008-04-20 2008
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Gabriele - earth-fast timber posts do rot quite quickly.
Birdoswald Roman Fort: dating the post-Roman use of the site Carla 2010
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Then those wicked men bound Edmund and shamefully insulted him and beat him with clubs, and afterwards they led the faithful king to an earth-fast tree and tied him to it with hard bonds, and afterwards scourged him a long while with whips, and among the blows he was always calling the true faith of Jesus Christ.
Archive 2007-05-13 2007
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Dark, rich, earth-born, earth-fast, material, she looked down at Creed where he stood beside her, his hand on the sorrel's neck, his calm blue eyes raised to hers.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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He permitted one for an instant to perceive a musical realm in which the earth-fast could not breathe.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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Sighed forth from out the rooted, earth-fast trees,
The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
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He ceased, and what a shout went up, seeming to shake the earth-fast hill, scaring the eagles from their high nests, and rolling in long echoes, like reverberated thunder among the resounding hills.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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