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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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If one believer insult another, the latter should repeat "I am fasting" three times before venturing himself to reply.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

When I am fasting I do the most talking about how busy I am.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson

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 am fasting in the hope that you may be my husband in my next birth, too.

From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder