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am fasting

  • present progressive
    of fast (1st person singular).
    fast
    adjective
    moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast pain reliever;

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"Away with a vengeance!" quoth the tanner: "I hold thee out of thy wit: All day have I ridden on Brock my mare, And I am fasting yet."

From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

The trap answered, 'I am fasting and praying.'

From Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

You say the shopman piles a heap, While I perhaps am fasting; And bless your wits, it haunts him in sleep, His tin-kettle chance of lasting!

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

I know I must work or go hungry, and I can stand a certain amount of fasting, but to be stamped as immoral because I am fasting rather hurts my pride.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson

But I am fasting, and it is almost noon, And more than time that I had dined: Wherefore from hence I will go soon; I think by this time my meat is burned.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt