He was steadying himself with a hand on the table when he said: "Well, you opened the package; what did you find out?
She got upon her feet, steadyingherself by the back of the chair.
Carter had sat down in the saddle, and taken a steadying pull at the brown mare.
For a few seconds the aeroplane appeared to falter; then steadying herself, continued her flight undamaged.
Round swung the armed liner and, steadying on her helm, bore down upon the spot where the submarine was supposed to be lurking.
Then, steadying himself, he sent his fists crashing right and left into the faces of two men who clutched at him, ducked to avoid a third, and in doing so tripped and fell headlong to the bottom of the boat.
Steadying himself with one hand, Christian felt in his pockets for his knife.
Standing on the ledge of rock, and steadying himself with one hand, he lifted the other stealthily upward to feel the sides of the shaft.
Men will not so consecrate themselves to their children's good without the steadying influence of religion.
If individuals live this life in the bounds to which their group and family associations are confined, the steadying influence of society is at its greatest.
Her tears were unrestrained at last; but Allan, steadying the wheel with one hand, drew an arm about her and kissed and comforted her.
Pauline went forward and stood upon the upper step, steadying herself by the oarsman's proffered shoulder.
The man was standing at the stern of the gondola, steadying the oar with one hand.
The chief features in this machine are that it is fitted with Mr. John Casson's patent feed gear and apparatus forsteadying the saws.
Elevation of the foot of the bed about nine inches proved so efficacious in steadying failing hearts in acute infectious diseases, particularly typhoid, that a study was made of the effect upon blood pressure.
Its chief usefulness is in steadying the decompensated heart, improving the conduction of impulses, and increasing the tone of the cardiac muscle.
But Lidgerwood clung to the gate-palings for yet another steadying moment.
She was steadying herself against the swing of the car, with one shapely hand on the edge of the desk, and he covered it with one of his own.
Miss Brewster, steadying herself by the knob of the closed door, was not overawed; she had seen Rocky Mountain canyons at their best and their worst, many times before.
Steadying himself by the coaming, Anstey felt with his left foot for the topmost rung.
Steadying himself by the mast, Mostyn stood upon the gunwale and scanned the horizon.
With one foot resting on a girder on one side of the passage, and the other on the opposite side, and steadying himself as best he could with his left hand, Anstey inserted the point of the marline-spike in the slot of the bottle screw.
Deftly he opened the breech and thrust home the cardboard cylinder containing the detonator and explosive light; then, standing on the stern bench and steadying the tiller with one foot, he levelled the short-barrelled weapon.
Steadying himself by the now useless tiller, Peter peered anxiously into the darkness.
He stood looking down across the orchard and the maple-lined streets of the town, to the shining sea; but his hand groped for the casing and held it with a steadying grip.
He moved back a step, steadying himself with one hand on an alder.
She had stopped and the child, steadying himself with his hand on her skirt, stood dropping pebbles slowly between the rails.
He found Mason steadying the lurching dugout while the young man took his place forward of the stern.
They waited a moment while she slipped to her feet, steadying herself a little.
And she wrote hastily, steadying her arm upon the table, for she trembled like a reed.
So probably was Uzzah's steadying the ark--But some of these do help on the cause of God, and even more than the stale attendance on Lord's day duties.
All these specious measures are no better than Saul's sacrificing, Uzzah's steadying the ark, and the use of images in divine worship!
Now that the fort's exploded, look out for the Iroquois," said Mount, steadying his voice with an effort.
With reasonably large doses of nux vomica, an increase in appetite came and a steadying of her heart that soon did away with these recurrent attacks.
Steadying himself by a ringbolt overhead, he swung lightly into his hammock and wriggled down between the blankets.
Steadying himself by the rail along the engine-room casing he hurried to the wheel.
The other, thrice blessed in the knowledge of how much sympathy unmans, and how much strengthens to endure, laid a steadying hand on the square shoulder presented to him.
A man, in utter disregard of the request, had picked up a child in his arms and jumped on board, steadying himself by the funnel guys.
Mrs. Gould, with her candid eyes very wide open, her lips composed into a smile, was steadying herself with a little bejewelled hand against the side of the door.
All this matter of eternal dupery," Des Esseintes reflected, "is not conducive to the steadying of my already weakened faith.
Like Balzac who was wont to scribble on many sheets of paper so as to put himself in a mood for work, Des Esseintes felt the necessity of steadying his hand by several initial and unimportant experiments.
The "Urgent" is long and narrow, and during our expedition she lacked the steadying influence of sufficient ballast.
But with Davy pride projected itself into the outer world; while with Faraday it became a steadying and dignifying inward force.
That's easy," Bill replied, as he sat against the edge of the table, steadying himself with his hands.
Millie stood at the newel-post, steadying the tray against it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steadying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
