She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception; and now when she looked steadily at her husband's failure, still more at his possible consciousness of failure, she seemed to be looking along the one track where duty became tenderness.
I feel sure that marriage must be the best thing for a man who wants to work steadily.
Vincy rose, began to button his great-coat, and looked steadily at his brother-in-law, meaning to imply a demand for a decisive answer.
He ran on steadily and disappeared into the mouth of the tunnel.
Then he frightened her a little more, for he sat up—screamed once—turned rather pale, and then lay back and began to shriek, faintly but steadily.
Perks had been crying steadily ever since her husband had opened the wash-house door.
The old white horse strained at the ropes, the barge glided smoothly and steadily through the still water.
On he ran desperately, but kept looking back, and saw that they still gained steadily.
The cuckoo, of course, had long been silent; but many another feathered friend, for months a part of the familiar landscape and its small society, was missing too and it seemed that the ranks thinned steadily day by day.
In silence Mole rowed steadily, and soon they came to a point where the river divided, a long backwater branching off to one side.
They plodded along steadily and silently, each of them thinking his own thoughts.
The pageant of the river bank had marched steadily along, unfolding itself in scene-pictures that succeeded each other in stately procession.
Rearing, plunging, backing steadily, in spite of all the Mole's efforts at his head, and all the Mole's lively language directed at his better feelings, he drove the cart backwards towards the deep ditch at the side of the road.
The Water Rat, like the good little fellow he was, sculled steadily on and forebore to disturb him.
IV THE FRESHET The rain had fallen steadily for two days and two nights-not just a gentle drizzle, but a heavy downpour.
He steadily refused to accompany his father into Herefordshire, an engagement formed almost at the moment to promote the dismissal of Catherine, and as steadily declared his intention of offering her his hand.
Fisher, her eyes going steadily line by line down the page and not a word of it getting through into her consciousness, is foolish of friends.
Twinges of every sort had there been her portion; aches, hurts, discouragements, and she the whole time being steadily unselfish.
Wilkins, having stood there some time very drearily, her mind's eye on the Mediterranean in April, and the wistaria, and the enviable opportunities of the rich, while her bodily eye watched the really extremely horrible sooty rain falling steadily on the hurrying umbrellas and splashing omnibuses, suddenly wondered whether perhaps this was not the rainy day Mellersh—Mellersh was Mr.
Anne worked hard and steadily.
