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Fastened to a lanyard around his neck was a pair of binoculars, which had no lenses.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 15, 2017

Fastened to her blouse was a diaper pin, a reminder of the couple's two young children inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2016

Fastened to the walls were a bear’s head, steer horns and some military pictures of planes and warships.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2015

Fastened piggyback style to two 149-ft. boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fastened to mount Caucasus, he speaks thus: Thou heav'n-born race of Titans here fast bound, Behold thy brother!

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke