steady-going

I can tell you it is always a good thing to have a steady-going person like that in a big house like this — some one you can rely on in any contingency.

Pillars of Society 2008

I can tell you it is always a good thing to have a steady-going person like that in a big house like this — some one you can rely on in any contingency.

Pillars of Society 2008

Those prudent, steady-going characters who are laying down wine in bottles for their heirs, can barely conceive, it is true, of so wide a theory of life, nor appreciate its normal condition; but when will you instill poetry into the provincial intellect?

The Magic Skin 2007

Too steady-going to be ‘a buck’ (as fast and unmarried men were then called), he was an approximately fashionable man of a mild type.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The offer was unexpected, because all who knew anything of Mr Abney looked upon him as a somewhat austere recluse, into whose steady-going household the advent of a small boy would import a new and, it seemed, incongruous element.

Lost Hearts by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

A year behind the irrepressible Halsey at Annapolis, Nimitz had graduated in the top tenth of his class; “calm and steady-going,” judged theLucky Bag.

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

A year behind the irrepressible Halsey at Annapolis, Nimitz had graduated in the top tenth of his class; “calm and steady-going,” judged theLucky Bag.

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

There is no folly, no pardoning warmth of temper about them; they are as steady-going and systematic in their own way as the studious in theirs.

Lay Morals 2005

And now he could almost give odds to his tutor, though he never presumed to offer them; and trading as he did with enlightened merchants of large Continental sea-ports, who had plenty of time on their hands and played well, he imported new openings of a dash and freedom which swallowed the ground up under the feet of the steady-going players, who had never seen a book upon their favorite subject.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He was a quiet, steady-going sort of farmer, and never would have no truck with us in our flash times.

Robbery Under Arms 2004