If this new love is the "soul mate" she thinks, the attraction will be all the stronger and steadier in a year or two from now.

It lay in his grasp steady as a log, and I saw that Percy Darrow's fate was in the hands of that dangerous class of natural marksman that possesses no nerves.

Alittle two-by-four all our own, with you steady on the job and advanced maybe to forty or fifty a week and" "For God's sake, Gertie, this ain't the time or the place to" "Oh yes, it is!

In the first glow of this new understanding his nerves had steadied to a serenity that was akin to awe.

It is very splendid!the French man holding steady at the front, the French woman an unyielding second line of defense.

"Hold on, Cullen," said I, "lay steady for a moment."

No rest could be steadier than the stone-like rigidity of his thick arms.

Andy soothed Dobbin by word and kept him steady with the bridle reins.

And surely, I gave the Maid a lift, and held her up so far as mine arms did go, so that she might stand upon the palms of my hands, and be steady against the trunk of the tree; and she thiswise to have a hold upon a branch, and so to go upward.

It is a steadier of life, a strengthener of hope, a stalwart aid to a practical, devout, and duty-doing life.

It was the same weird spot to which he had been brought by Old MORTARITY on the wintry night of their unholy exploring party; and, without appearing to be surprised that the entrance to the excavation was open, he eagerly descended by the rickety step-ladder, and held himself steady by the latter while throwing the light of his lantern around the mouldy walls.

The wind still steady from the S.W., with a clear sky and even barometer.

Samantha and her sisters were hardly as steady about it as their mother; but they were careful to conceal their misgivings from their neighbors, which was very kindly indeed in the circumstances.

She floated high and light, her muddy side rising like a wall as she steadied between the rolls that dipped her channels in the foam.

Just as he decided he must turn away there came a stirring in the dead house, a flicker of light appeared on the inside now here, now there; it steadied into a tiny beam and approached the door.

The night had been quiet, and the breeze steady until near on to the dawn, when the wind slacked away to nothing, and we lay there waiting, perchance the sun should bring the breeze with it.

"Well, as I said, the wind blew strong and steady behind us, the sails were full, and the spray dashed up at our bow in a way calculated to tickle the soul of any one anxious to get to the end of his voyage; and I was one of that sort, I can tell you.

And by that time the sun had set and all the air was illuminated with a marvellous golden light; and in this sky of gold the moon hung like a shield of silver, very bright and steady above the roofs and towers of the castle.

If a cottage, where the occupants are steady like this, be visited in the evening, say towards seven o'clock, when dinner is on the table (labourers dining or supping after the conclusion of the day's work), the fare will often be found of a substantial character.

Leaving orders to keep her "steady before it" the captain went forward to ascertain the extent of the damage they had sustained.

But it was sheer will power that kept me steady among these men who were treating it as if it were a Fourteenth of July show.

" We came about slowly, tossed a bit by the heavy swell, the ponderous boom swinging, and permitting the loosened canvas to flap against the ropes, until the sloop finally steadied onto the new tack.

he shouted to the seaman on the ladder when the Rio Negro steadied after a violent roll; and then touched Adam.

They work under a constant nervous strain and find that drink steadies themfor a time.

Steady across the gangwayshe's pitching a little.