" Dorothea was nervous, hysterical, but she steadied herself bravely, though her fingers worked and trembled under her faded shawl.

But her lip trembled and her voice was scarcely steady.

More graceful and more accurate first basemen have been developed than Miller, but in his first year of play at the bag he steadied the team perceptibly and unquestionably gave confidence to the other men.

It also pumped in or out, at whatever depth, the quantity of water required as ballast, not merely to steady the vessel, but to keep her in position on the surface or to sink her to the level at which the pilot might choose to sail.

Even now, though he had steadied himself wonderfully, he could not get on without a little mild gamblinghalf-crown pool, whist with half-guinea pointsbut when he condescended to such small stakes he felt that he had settled down into a respectable middle-aged player, and had a right to rebuke the follies of youth.

she now eats and drinks in plenty; whose voice was ez steady with Injins yellin' round yer nest in the leaves on Sweetwater ez in her purty cabin up yonder.

They stood in silence, holding fast to one another while the moonlight flickered in and out, and Burke's heart gradually steadied again after the terrific struggle.

"It can be done in a second, and no matter how a man's hand shakes, he can steady the point of the bayonet against the trigger-guard, push it down till the point pushes the trigger home.

Enough to send warm tingling thrills of well being through her tired body, to brighten her eyes, to clear her brain and steady her shaking nervesto make her young again, young and a bride.

"It will steady you nicely for waltzing, and some eau-de-cologne in my room will take off all the smell afterwards.

The roaring in his ears was gone, his nerves became amazingly steady, and every stroke with his paddle was long and finished, a work of art.

he asks in a voice more movedor I think soless positively steady than his has been of late; "at your age, it is more natural to look on than to look back.

The eye was cool, the pulse steady, the man's body, battered though it was, strong in its steely composure.

Just give me a minute..." It was less than that before she asked, in a tone reassuringly steady, "Does father know, himself?" "He's been warned, but he's skeptical.

I take this opportunity of stating that I have uniformly advocated the policy of offering good prices for the chronometers of great excellence, and that I have given much attention to the decision on their merits; and I am convinced that this system has greatly contributed to the remarkably steady improvement in the performance of chronometers.

Then she looked up, resolutely steadying her voice: "Could anything on earth more awful have happened to a girl?"

Slowly, very softly, steadying himself on the top bar of the fence, Bull lowered his weight more and more until the whole burden was on the back of the stallionand then he took his hands from the top rail.

Each minute seemed like an hour marked into seconds by the solemn steady tolling of the bell, and after a little he found himself unconsciously measuring time by counting the strokes.

Hence you have to imagine wide steady streams of all manner of things converging upon Northern France not only from Britain but from round about the globe.

"I wish I knew, lad," was my reply, in a voice that was not overly steady.

Quicker, and ever quicker, ran the flicker of day and night; and, suddenly it seemed, I was aware that the flicker had died out, and, instead, there reigned a comparatively steady light, which was shed upon all the world, from an eternal river of flame that swung up and down, North and South, in stupendous, mighty swings.

Then Crassus, who had the rest of equal length cut down, so as to be shorter and consequently steadier to carry, only increased the prodigies.

Her heart stood still, but again desperately she steadied herself.

Being single, Teresa either is, or affects to be, excessively steady; no one would marry her if she were notnot even the good-natured Orsetti.