earth-fast

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.

Time To Ditch St. George 2008

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

Gabriele - earth-fast timber posts do rot quite quickly.

Birdoswald Roman Fort: dating the post-Roman use of the site Carla 2010

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

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

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

Sighed forth from out the rooted, earth-fast trees,

The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

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