steady-going

Now a farmer should live in the present, and time himself by a steady-going watch with an enamelled face.

He was a steady-going sort, who looked like one of The Shadow's agents.

You know what a hard-working, steady-going chap he is.

But they came quite differently from the lips of a steady-going serious-minded person of this kind.

She did her work quickly and with decision and despatch, and soon turned the panic flight into a quite steady-going march.

She is warranted sound and steady-going, and we shall not have to use her for long, but she is a sorry-looking beast.

Settling finally in Melbourne, Australia, he ceased to roam, became a steady-going substantial merchant, and prospered greatly.

He returned somewhat despondently to his river again--his faithful, steady-going old river, which never packed up, flitted, or went into winter quarters.

But he comes out very well in Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's careful, steady-going and well-researched study of patronage at the court of Prague.

The coach was none of your steady-going yokel coaches, but a swaggering, rakish London coach; up all night, and lying by all day, and leading a wild, dissipated life.

Being a sober, steady-going man, he tried to work as long as he could lift his arms, but in the end he had to give up the job which meant life and home to him.

No doubt this uncertainty has induced many to abandon the feeding, and to adopt the dairy system, the produce of which is less subject to violent fluctuations in price, and is more of a steady-going character.

She had been good-humouredly working and drudging for her life all her life, and was a sober steady-going person, with matter-of-fact ideas about the butcher and baker, and the division of pence into farthings.

Always calm and steady-going, Tanis rarely allowed anything to DRAQONLANCE PRGluoes shake himwith the possible exception of the twins' older sister, Kitiara.

To quiet, steady-going people in England there is an idea of cruelty inseparable from the pursuit of large game; people talk of "unoffending elephants," "poor buffaloes," "pretty deer," and a variety of nonsense about things which they cannot possibly understand.

I accordingly chose for my wife a steady-going animal from among the baggage-camels, trusting to be able to obtain a hygeen from the great Sheik Abou Sinn, who was encamped upon the road we were about to take along the valley of the Atbara.

The obscurity of her birth and isolation of her lot, which would have deterred some lovers, not only appealed to his kindly heart, but touched the hidden romance which ran like a vein of gold through his strong common sense and made practical, steady-going Archie a poet when he fell in love.

I had contented myself with elk-hunting in Newera Ellia and the vicinity, but in November, 1850, the greyhounds were again in their palanquin, and, ac companied by my brother V., I was once more in the saddle on my steady-going old horse Jack, en route for the Park.