steady-going
Example Sentences
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Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impartial House observers rate him thus: A steady-going unimaginative legislator, he possesses qualities which regular Republicans consider sterling.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was the Middletons’ friend, Jim’s friend; reported to be good, staid, steady-going; not too young, straight as a die, and a splendid soldier,—in short an elder-brother-sort-of-man, agreeably free from romance.
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
