From 1983 through 1988, the number held steady at around 4,000.

He's steady and the kind of person you want on your team.

I'm trying to keep a steady mind for next season.

Her father had held a steady job for more than 25 years.

He has not had a steady job in three years.

We want a steady person so he can know the kids.

She is a very steady person who worked here for years.

But her eyes were steady as she put off their questions.

Her eyes were open now, dark and steady on his.

Only one of the men seemed to hold steady work.

Ever since high school, he's been the one steady thing in my life.

All I need is for you to hold the right steady.

Most of all he had to be strong and steady for her.

A husband who had to stay steady for his wife.

They've known each other since they were kids, and went steady in college.

He was not quite able to keep his voice steady.

She turned away, no longer so steady on her feet.

"Or sometimes I just hold it for 10 minutes in a steady position."

And they would like it if their business were steady.

But the girl's large blue eyes were strong and steady.

Only with effort was she able to keep her voice steady.

When I've got no means to support her and nothing steady to offer.

It was more important than ever to keep her voice steady.

It was all she could do to keep her voice steady.

She put her hand out to the wall to keep herself steady.

Then she steadied herself, and looked him full in the face.

One went high once they steadied up, the other low.

He was on his feet and the hands steadied him.

He knew her well enough to say nothing, just to hold on until she steadied herself.

After a moment the world steadied, and he could stand on his own two feet.

Then the light steadied, and so it seemed did he.

The world inside his head steadied and came into focus.

But the movement steadied, and the big man went still.

He steadied himself to have another clear look at it.

After a while the image steadied to show a face.

It steadied in the air and began to play again.

I steadied myself down long enough to put it on.

His hand came across the table, steadied on the girl's.

He reached out a hand and steadied himself against the house.

The world steadied as though a hand had been put upon it.

He steadied himself with a hand on the edge of the table.

He held it out in a hand that had steadied.

He pulled back on the power until his course steadied.

She put out her hand and steadied herself against the wall.

He came up, gun out and steadied by both hands.

He stopped and steadied himself with one hand against the wall.

The man reached out with his left hand and steadied her.

He is leaving the business to his children and wants to get them steadied.

He pulled his feet under him and steadied himself enough to turn around.

Feeling their eyes upon her, she steadied herself and continued.

He makes a daily report on each one: it is always 'Condition Steady'.

'Steady on, Bill,' one of the other officers said quietly.

'Steady,' read a little sign that popped up from nowhere on the opposite wall.

'Steady on, John,' he said in a soothing voice.

'Steady now; sure you want to say that?

'Steady,' Jack said, bracing his head with one hand.

'Steady now,' Hitch said and Morton slowed up a little more.

'Steady on, lad, I mean you no harm,' a calm voice directly above him announced.

'Steady, my friend,' he said, laying his hand on Hick's arm.

'Steady on two thousand, one, sir,' the buffer called.

At length he snapped to the prince,'Steady, sir.

'Steady now,' he said, 'We don't want you hurting yourself.

'Steady' summed him up: he was adroit and unspectacular in all departments of the game.

"Steady-" he told himself, and the spoken words somehow were as comforting as if they had come from lips other than his own chapped ones.

'Steady,' said the turnkey, still holding him down.

'Steady on, girl,' said Gazzer from over by the kettle.

'Steady, girl,' he said, one hand gripping the thick hair at the scruff of the dog's neck to hold her head still.

I was near him that night and he kept telling me 'Steady, steady,' to keep me calm.

'Steady there,' said the king, and the beardling's floundering subsided.

'Steady there, matey,' Willie said kindly, and leaned forward.

'Steady,' I said in a voice only Del - and perhaps Brutal - could hear.

'Steady as a rock.

'Steady on,' said Alex, laughing, slipping back easily into the comradely banter she'd always enjoyed.

'Steady on now,' said Professor Slocombe, raising a pale hand.

'Steady, Louis,' and 'Hurry,' he whispered to me a number of times.