For us the interval between the two rises, some 8 miles, was steady plodding work which we might keep up for some time.
We lost cairn and tracks together and made as steady as we could N.
We did the usual march very easily over a fairly good surface, the ponies now quite steady and regular.
We made a very steady afternoon march, covering 6 1/2, miles (geo.
Movement is warming, and in ten minutes the column has settled itself to steady marching.
The way in which they keep up a steady jog trot for hour after hour is wonderful.
Yesterday when brought to his knees and held, he lay down, but this served no end, for before he jumped to his feet and dashed off the traces had been fixed and he was in for the 13 miles of steady work.
We now keep a steady pace of 2 miles an hour, very good going.
The barometer has been almost steady since Saturday, the wind rising and falling slightly, but steady in direction from the west.
There has been a steady stream of cases passing along the shore route all day and transport arrangements are hourly improving.
These are the only real incidents of the march--for the rest it passes with a steady tramp and slight variation of formation.
The barometer has been very steady for several days and we ought to have fine weather: this morning a lot of low cloud came from the S.
The completion of our station is approaching with steady progress.
Here they held the boat steady in a regular naval style, while their chief and his companions stepped out, the former using the black backs for support, for big and strong as he was his obese state made him far from active.
The two men had risen to their feet, and to steady themselves they each laid the hand at liberty upon the berth which held their young companion.
In striking contrast with the steady advance of Arabic exploration and trade in the Eastern Sea is the Moslem horror of the Western Ocean beyond Europe and Africa, the "Green Sea of Darkness" or the Atlantic.
He moved on by slow and steady intrigue towards the Regency he claimed.
Those delicious picnics that break with such enchanting freshness and variety thesteady course of life in other capitals cannot here exist.
But the steady growth of centuries has left nothing but the outworn shell of the old religion and the old loyalty.
But you miss in him that steady devotion to truth which distinguishes Velazquez, and that spiritual lift which ennobles Murillo.
His father was a steady friend to the American cause even during the late war, and many years before an Agent resided here.
A brave, and stately, and noble man, walking through a steady gloom of grief, and yet content to walk alone, and never speak of it.
Without being able to see so much as I strongly desired to see of him, I could not help admiring now his look, and his manner, and strong steady gait, and the general style of his outward man.
The Colonel also began to provoke me, for when I wanted to give the maid a stiff glass of grog to steady her, he had no more sense than to countermand it, and order a glass of cold water!
He looked up at me in a bold steady manner, wholly unlike their savage stare, and it struck me that here was the little fellow whom I had saved eight or nine years ago from the horse of Parson Jack.
The moment he jumps up, off with the hood, and with a steady movement of the left arm forwards, something like that of a left-arm slow bowler, launch your hawk into the wind.
As the hawk comes at it, it can be jerked away with a steady pull, and, as the hawk throws up, it can be secured and hidden, while a dead pigeon of the same colour is thrown down in its place.
In some places they surround the neck of the hawk with a halschband, or linen collar, which serves to steady the flight.
Flashing and waning, the lights upon the screen formed fleeting, shifting, nebulous images of a relay station upon distant Earth; but the utmost power of the transmitting fields could neither steady the image nor hold it.
Then, bracing his feet against one lump, he pushed against its neighbor, and under that steady pressure the enormous masses moved apart and kept on moving, grinding among their fellows.
This agreeable and witty book is generally supposed to have been written by Mr. Thomas Moore, a gentleman of small stature, but full of genius, and a steady friend of all that is honourable and just.
Not so Old England, who indulges rather in a steady baseness, uniform brutality, and unrelenting oppression.
If the job had been entrusted to me, with my steady nerves, I think I should have been successful.
He had loved his cousin for years, not perhaps with any great overmastering passion, but with that steady affection which might be expected from a man of his grave and cautious temperament.
When he arrived at the edge of the mesa, the storm had increased to a steady dull roar of rushing rain.
He looked the cowboy in the eye and was met by a gaze as steady as his own; an aggressive and insolent gaze that had for its backing sheer physical courage and nothing more.
See here, Billy, you've been hitting it up pretty steady this week.
His steady gray eyes were smiling, but his lips were grave.
Once well outside the town, Chance settled to a long, steady stride that ate into the miles.
For three weeks steady after the surrender people was passing from the War and for two years off and on somebody come along going home.
Lewis fed me for three weeks steady on okra soup cooked with chicken.
I must tell here that this conversation took place in a new cafe on 10th Street; whereupon some kind-hearted companion suggested to the weather-beaten veteran of the Jewish stage that he should make this place his steady abode.
He had a steadyjob at Kuntzman's and worked there year in, year out.
But Ophelia's steady place was near Babeta's table at the door.
One hand on the wheel, the other on the speed control, the young skipper increased the speed by slow degrees until the “Rocket” had settled down to a steady twelve-mile speed.
It will do a lot to steady your interests in Wall Street.
Answering, the motor boat took a jump ahead, then settled down to steady going.
That held the market steady at that price for a moment.
The boy had unwound his cummerbund to place under my arms by which to steady me in jumping down from one ledge to the other.
I did so with his permission, and saw the water flowing in a steady stream across it.
He spent a good portion of his time on Jerry's education, and, on occasion, would make bows and arrows that were so esteemed by his tribespeople as to command a steady sale.
Most small creatures were afraid of that snarl, but it had no deterrent effect on Jerry, who continued his steady stalking.
Scarcely had the mate fetched a blanket from below and turned in on deck, than a brisk steady breeze sprang up from off the land, sending the Arangi through the smooth water at a nine-knot clip.
But the steadyold Street on which I live gives up its dissipated idea early, turns off light after light, and soon the lonely sidewalks are without a passenger.
Thick in the little harbor lay the slender masts of vessels with steady lights glowing in their rigging.
All through the meal, sending away one course after another unfinished, he gave way voluntarily to the passion of bitterness, made no effort to steady the balance of his mind.
Her figure seemed to straighten, her eyes to steady with resolve.
There was a true, a steady note of reconciliation in her voice.
I scrambled up, and found the cap'n houldin' on to the rail to steady himself agin the bumping o' the wessel.
In a moment I knew, by the crack of a parlor match and a responsive flash of steady light, that she had found a lamp and lighted it.
After a while, when sufficiently recovered to speak in a steady voice, I instructed my mate to put the ship round at eight o'clock himself.
