steady-going
Example Sentences
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Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers.
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Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
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Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres.
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They were steady-going fellows and both were dead shots with the rifle.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
