Adjective : steady-going service to the cause of justice. ,a steady-going family man. From Dictionary.com.
But I've some steady-going cousins I want to introduce you to. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Always calm and steady-going, Tanis rarely allowed anything to. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers Majere]
The steady-going professional men who sprung to arms throughout the. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
If it's sober and steady-going, you label it masculine, like Big Ben. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
John is a straight-forward, steady-going boy — how could he get into trouble?. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
But the very qualities which made her so steady-going militated against her speed. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
Not that the money will hurt him much; but that he would like to have a steady-going son. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Coulter was a steady-going, reliable man of forty odd, extremely trustworthy and not too imaginative. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
When the steady-going launch brought up alongside, many inquiries were made as to what had detained them so long. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
Sleepy-looking, steady-going places they all were, with people crawling about them like a lot of old working bullocks. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
But I was introduced to the "steady-going cousins" and to me now the Richmond of memory begins and ends in their circle. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The habitual steady-going when temptations come in, and when many special aids, and stimulating surroundings are withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
He became from the same moment an object of distrust, and something approaching to detestation in the eyes of all steady-going. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
It is well known that the British are a far more steady-going people than ourselves, and not being so rushing do not require so much speed. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
He was a manly-looking fellow, well-educated enough, sober, and a steady-going, reliable engineer; you would never pick him out for a hero. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Caukins was not to be sneezed at as a prospective husband -- a steady-going, solid sort of a chap who, he was told, had a chance now like himself in the quarry business. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
His greatest delight it seemed, was to pose as the steady-going Wallace, and puzzle people who looked to the other Carberry twin as an example of what a studious lad should be. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference
With the steady-going burghers along the Zuyder Zee. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 10: Before the Curfew] Reference
And she isn't by any means a steady-going Come-Outer. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
He even felt like a steady-going person with a mission. From Wordnik.com. [A Spirit in Prison] Reference
To all others I wish only to be an obscure, steady-going, private character. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference
Joe and Jim had a humourous side; but John had always been grave and steady-going. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference
To be called a black sheep -- a hard-working, steady-going man as he had been all his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Box and What it Contained] Reference
It had been smouldering for years, a steady-going feud, before it reached its crisis last June. From Wordnik.com. [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference
Woodthrop was popular, honest, steady-going; a fine, typical Englishman of the period, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
'My watch is like myself,' said the squire, 'girning,' as the Scotch say -- 'plain, but steady-going. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
Bracing air; and steady-going doctors who leave the fools in Europe to pry into the secrets of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
To the steady-going, stationary, passionless community these conditions approach the incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
Even this steady-going, unimpressible citizen of the world, it appears, has its one bit of freakishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Yes, that was a bad guess: I'm sure Lindley's just the same steady-going, sober, plodding old horse he was as a boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Flirt] Reference
But his wealth made him remarkable; for the possession of wealth usually renders a man steady-going and conservative. From Wordnik.com. [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference
It's like the difference between riding a well-broken, steady-going hack and a lively young colt with ideas of his own. From Wordnik.com. [Novel Notes] Reference
Settling finally in Melbourne, Australia, he ceased to roam, became a steady-going substantial merchant, and prospered greatly. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
Scots kings, their undoubted representative -- how could these things fail to affect the mind even of the most steady-going citizen?. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference
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