hold-fast

In my own anecdotal way, I've noticed the yellow jacket constructions on my patio are bigger every year, and this year's has so many amazons they stud the boarding around it, unable to find a hold-fast on the nest itself.

BROAD CAST, 1 SEPTEMBER 2007 Maggie Jochild 2007

The hold-fast pedal foot "retenders" have a installation procedure that does not mention removing the legs from my skinny jeans above the knee... the pictures imply that this happens at some point during installation of the product.

The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil BikeSnobNYC 2009

While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth:

The Rape of Lucrece 2004

At this dark moment of discouragement there seemed, even to her hold-fast nature, no way out.

To Let 2004

Mott had never been one to justify the vast NASA program because it had provided stick-free Teflon frying pans to housewives or Velcro hold-fast fabrics to vaudeville performers, enabling them to appear in funny break-away costumes.

Space Michener, James 1982

Man, says Montaigne, has no hold-fast, no firm and fixed point, within himself, in spite of his apparently splendid outfit.

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

Anal foot: applied to the tip of the body in larval Chironomids, which is modified to serve as a hold-fast.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Men are like nails, some have the hold-fast will in their heads.

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth: 555

The Rape of Lucrece 1914

But it is a rash and wavering fire, waving and divers: the fire of an ague subject to fits and stints, and that hath but slender hold-fast of us.

Of Friendship. 1909