Dater's word

Usage examples of steady.

After a mere heartbeat of stillness, Abie could just barely make out the steady roll of a drum.

The mist became a light, steady rain, and as Ace rode along, a soft patter filled the stillness of aspen and pine.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

I gave an admonitory nod to the girls and walked off, trying to keep my gait steady as I knew their eyes were on me.

The Yeomanry, the Scottish Horse, and the Constabulary poured a steady fire upon the advancing wave of horsemen, and the guns opened with case at two hundred yards.

But the storm came up sharper than ever that evening, and even had he wished to, Roy would have found it impossible to handle the aeroplane alone in the heavy wind that came now in puffs and now in a steady gale.

The bomb aimer waited for the largest one - the hospital annex - left, left, steady.

The difficulty of procuring provisions was extreme, and the means he was compelled to employ for that purpose greatly heightened the evil, at the same time insubordination and want of discipline prevailed to such an alarming degree that it would be as difficult as painful to depict the situation of our army at this period, Marmont, by his steady conduct, fortunately succeeded in correcting the disorders which prevailed, and very soon found himself at the head of a well-organised army, amounting to 30,000 infantry, with forty pieces of artillery, but he had only a very small body of cavalry, and those ill-mounted.

Giving wide berth to the few steadings and inns that lay along the road, they kept up a steady pace for as long as Micum could stay in the saddle, slept in the open, and ate whatever Alec shot.

He handed the piece of cloth down to Amity, who held his legs to steady him during the next part of his work.

Because Nabokov does not require the steady accompaniment of a fictional setting, because the details appear in a flash without antecedent or context or function except their own vividness, each description seems a miracle of creativity and stands out as if caught by the oblique morning sun.

Their long-armed, apish forms seemed adapted to the rough going--the way was almost half steady climbing up, and down.

Sickened by the carnage, he turned away, taking a swig from his flask of aquavit to try to steady his stomach.

Only the Archdeacon, and he much more faintly, was conscious of that steady movement of creation flowing towards and through the narrow channel of its destiny.

His heart was pounding inside his chest like a small drum, not in its usual steady march but in a wild, arrhythmic abandon.