Use fasten in a sentence
Short sentences using fasten
- Quartermaster, fasten 'em. [5]
More example sentences with the word fasten in them
- And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
- I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
- At last everything was done, and he was stooping over a bag to fasten it. [11]
- Do you counsel us to fasten it anew, with a looser knot, which will hold as long as the whim of a vacillating weakling who has broken his promises to us and to Moses a score of times? [10]
- Be sure always to fasten to your belt the implements you need, for you do not know when the time will come. [5]
- The 'wreckers,' as they are called, fasten upon some railway that is prosperous, pays dividends, pays a liberal interest on its bonds, and has a surplus. [4]
- The rest of the comical ornaments and the thought of the nimble adventurer, who must have climbed up to fasten them, formed a glaring and offensive contrast to the caricature of the gallows. [10]
- Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
- Still, the old spirit infused by "Eyes and No Eyes" was upon me, and I looked for something to fasten my thought upon, and treat as an artist treats a study for a picture. [6]
- Then I shall shoot an arrow, with the cord fastened to it, up into his window, (I never miss), tell him to fasten a weight to it and let it down again to me. [10]
- He took a revolver from his pocket and examined it closely, looked round the room as though to fasten it in his memory, and then passed out, closing the door behind him. [11]
- A man had placed a nail; he was about to fasten something with it to the door-post of his shop--but he had stopped. [5]
- Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time. [5]
- But Barine would not leave her lover's couch, and had just loosed her hair to brush it again and fasten the thick, fair braids around her head, when, two hours after midnight, some one knocked loudly on the window shutters. [10]
- Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander. [5]
- I hope Argutis may understand how to fasten on the shoes with the straps and the crescent! [10]
- True, she had instantly hastened deeper into the woods with Nandl Woller, her cousin, to fasten it again, but the incident had most unpleasantly wounded Frau Kastenmayr's strict sense of propriety. [10]
- He would put his wheel down and stand on a spoke, and as the steamer swung into her (to me) utterly invisible marks--for we seemed to be in the midst of a wide and gloomy sea--he would meet and fasten her there. [5]
- Then Rameses helped him to unfasten the rope from round his waist to fasten it to the end of a beam. [10]
- Then she saw him fasten the pinks on the breast of his dark doublet, and heard the thrill of deep emotion in his voice, as he said: "I thank you, dear Kuni, for the beautiful flowers. [10]
- He was weak, he could not fasten where he stood. [11]
- The mosses and fungi gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odious parasites which fasten on the human frame choose that which is already enfeebled. [6]
- By jings, we forgot to fasten that lean-to door! [5]
- And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. [11]
- I fasten my eyes on France alone: I fight for the throne of Louis, not for the duchy of Bercy. [11]
- As yet her experiences were too new for her to fasten securely upon their meaning. [11]
- It brought him enthusiastic thanks, and Barbara even allowed him to fasten the magnificent ornament with his own fingers, which moved slowly and clumsily enough. [10]
- They were not double shutters, hinged at the sides, but a single broad shutter, hinged at the top; you push it outward, from the bottom, and fasten it at any angle required by the sun or desired by yourself. [5]
- Dicky heard, but did no more than fasten his eyes upon the Mudir for a moment. [11]
- But it appears, by subsequent proceedings, that they wished to fasten upon him the charge of embezzlement, the responsibility of the sufferings of the colony, and to mulct him in fines. [4]
- If he can, by much drumming and repeating, fasten the odium of that idea upon his adversaries, he thinks he can struggle through the storm. [7]
- She was tall, but not too commanding, and, as her hand was raised to fasten back a wisp of hair, there was the motion of as small a wrist and as tapering a bare arm as ever made prisoner of a man's neck. [11]
- Every man must be told to fasten one firmly to his shield and hold it out as he advances towards the enemy. [10]
- The mind is apt to fasten in a very perverse and unpleasant way upon this question, which too often there is no possible way of settling. [6]
- They don't fasten, and they stand open, as a rule, with a curtain hanging in the doorspace to keep out the glare of the sun. [5]
- The Swiss had also provided white roses from the Burgrave's garden to fasten at the square neck of Eva's dress. [10]
- A short time ago I reminded him of the fishing party when your Majesty had a diver fasten a salted herring on his hook. [10]
- Having proved that a crime is not a crime, was it worth while to go on and fasten the responsibility of a crime which was not a crime upon somebody else? [5]
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