But the "grand wheel" was really turning, to some purpose, and a few days later, April 6, 1825, he joyfully wrote to Barton, "My spirits are so tumultuary with the novelty of my recent emancipation that I have scarce steadiness of hand, much more mind, to compose a letter, I am free, B.B.,free as air!

The people consider this law, however just or necessary, as an act of the most tyrannical cruelty, which ought to be opposed with the utmost steadiness and vigour, as an insupportable hardship from which they ought at any rate to set themselves free.

But they took the punishment with sullen steadiness, coming on cautiously, deliberately, without haste and without lagging.

The eyes, hallowed by disease, retained a singular steadiness.

"For myself nothing is demanded," he said, with admirable steadiness.

As her life altered so terribly, as all that she had known and valued perished miserably before her eyes day by day, the thought of Calvert and of his calm steadiness and sincerity became constant with her.

With their customary steadiness they crossed the ridge; but when they saw the French, and began to move down the hill, a cheer that seemed to rend the heavens pealed from their proud array, and with levelled bayonets they pressed on to meet the enemy.

He had the child's way of eyeing a stranger with embarrassing steadiness at a first meeting and thereafter paying little attention to the face.

Howard turned aside, and Stafford went on slowly, with a kind of enforced steadiness, to the billiard-room.

They work with such extraordinary steadiness, stepping out briskly and cheerfully, following in each other's tracks.

An uncommonly elegant and admirably fitted travelling barouche and six rolled by, with the graceful steadiness of an English equipage: several servants on horseback were in attendance; and our little party were struck with the beauty of the whole establishment.

The odor of food had certainly reached him,that sniff confirmed it,and his eyes starting open, he sat up, and looked with grave steadiness at the pie.

Maud felt her courage departing, and her defeat, like that of brave troops seized by panic, seemed all the more imminent for habitual steadiness and valour.

I could see, while his muscles preserved an inflexible steadiness, tears of anguish roll down his cheeks.

If the surf be high, coming ashore is a delicate operation; for, should the boat be turned broadside on, she would be thrown over upon the oarsman, and both washed up the beach in a flood of sandy salt-water; so it requires some little steadiness to sit back to the coming wave, hear the increasing roar, and feel the sudden lift and toss shoreward which each roller gives you as it plunges down upon the sand.

For, after all, loyal emotions, loyal sacrifice of life, loyal steadiness in obscure service, are but various symptoms of a certain spirit which lies beneath all its various expressions.

Mast in line with mast, they held the course with a majestic steadiness.

From the nature of the case it could hardly be said that her death was unexpected, and he received the shock with the manly steadiness which belonged to him.

He was, however, gifted with shrewd sense, a quick sense of humor with keen wit, and a marked steadiness of character, which gained him both friends and popularity in the miserable little community where he lived; and in 1832 he was elected captain of a military company to fight Indians in the Black Hawk War.

Almost before he had finished wondering at the marvellous steadiness of this flying arrow of a ship, he had sunk down into complete unconsciousness.

Her eyes alone betrayed her; their strange intensitythe almost painful steadiness with which they hung to the distant mountain, and a dread of what was to come seized upon him.

So the theory that we were industrially and financially doomed got another argument from its own effects, and its missionaries were able to point to the fall in Consols and the relative steadiness of foreign and colonial securities which their own preaching had brought about, as fresh evidence of its truth.

Possessing a wonderful nose, combined with remarkable steadiness, his kind will work out the coldest scent, and once fairly on the line they will give plenty of music and get over the ground at a pace almost incredible.

He caught up his gun to make sure, but when his left hand slipped under the barrel to the balance and the butt of the gun pulled into the hollow of his shoulder, he became of rocklike steadiness.

Her fan is still waving with slow steadiness.