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Meanings of steady-going in английском

Consistent in performance or behavior.

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Usage of steady-going in английском
1
If it's sober and steady-going, you label it masculine, like Big Ben.
Swirling Waters
2
The aggregate of the people connected with the place are calm, steady-going beings.
Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
3
It is the true-hearted, steady-going chaps like Fisher who keep the world wagging.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
4
And continuing his run, he soon left the steady-going old soldier far behind.
Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea
5
The nomadic digger who called no man master is a steady-going wage-earner now.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
6
A man must be more solid, more solid and steady-going and less effervescent.
Adventure
7
I'm sure that a steady-going fellow like you would have done the same.
An Old Man's Love
8
He is a good and steady-going man, although so very quiet.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
9
To all others I wish only to be an obscure, steady-going, private character.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
10
No, love is a luxury of the rich and the poor and the steady-going.
The Great God Success: A Novel
11
He now set himself seriously to work with the pickaxe of the steady-going labourer.
Birds of Prey
12
I shall always remain the Merchant Lecour, the old man said, with steady-going pride.
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
13
Some of them have settled down into steady-going benedicts, and have money and position.
The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems
14
Women like a steady-going man; I shall never be that.'
Jo's Boys
15
He's a quiet, steady-going, regular dragon at his work-heis!
Basil
16
Joe and Jim had a humourous side; but John had always been grave and steady-going.
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...