What is "steadiness"

Usage examples of "steadiness".

In after years, when my life depended on steadiness of aim, I never felt so unnerved as I did when watching that bittern on that spring morning.

An adjustment is required providing for the employment of both metals--maintaining between them such fair equalization as would not violently disturb the value of real property or of annual products, and most important of all would secure a steadiness to the wages of labor and a sound currency in which to recompense it.

Perrot whispered to him, and now he turned and look at Gering with a malignant steadiness.

Indeed, it was produced in vacuo, which insured both its steadiness and its intensity.

I also wish to state that I saw the right wing of the Thirteenth extend and advance in skirmishing order, and that nothing could exceed the steadiness and regularity with which they advanced.

The steadiness and discipline shown by the 1st Battalion of the Buffs, under Lieu.

Moors and Parthians, who taught him to dart the javelin and to shoot with the bow, found a disciple who delighted in his application, and soon equalled the most skilful of his instructors in the steadiness of the eye and the dexterity of the hand.

The Consubstantialists, who by their success have deserved and obtained the title of Catholics, gloried in the simplicity and steadiness of their own creed, and insulted the repeated variations of their adversaries, who were destitute of any certain rule of faith.

I knew by the masklike expression of his face, the pallor, and the steadiness of the eyes, that he anticipated something that might be very terrible--appalling.

Its inky eyes were cold and merciless, sharklike in their steadiness and glassy concentration.

Jasper, here, will show you how a nail is to be started, or the lad has lost some of his steadiness of hand and sartainty of eye.

There are four of them,and while none of them looks particularly toughphysically bein' uniformly soft around the middle,there is a steadiness in their eyes that anyone in 146 Robert Asprin the business can spot as the mark of someone whatdon't get particularly rattled when trouble starts.

In grasping the present, he felt for the first time the massive steadiness of time's movement everywhere complicated by shifting currents, waves, surges, and countersurges, like surf against rocky cliffs.

There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.

There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.