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Whoever piloted it must surely be determined to invite this frightful end to its voyage, for nothing was ever steadier or more resolute than its downward movement towards the whirling waters that rushed through the canon. All suddenly it disappeared, whelmed as it seemed in darkness and the roaring flood, and the watching priest made the sign of the cross in air murmuring
He went to his satchel again and took out a bottle of white tablets marked "Nitroglycerin." He gave her one of them, and when he saw her look of peace grow steadier, after a minute, he prepared the electric battery.
It was who could suggest the soundest remedies, or easiest postures. One lent a kerchief and nursed him; another ran to the city fountain and fetched him water. Meantime the moon had dropped, and morning, grey and beamless, looked on the house-peaks and along the streets with steadier eye.
His deep-set eyes were clearer and steadier than of old, but they were no longer the eyes of a boy. He was like a mariner whose ship has been wrecked. He had nothing worse to dread and nothing to hope for. He simply desired to see the rock on which his life craft had smashed.
As he retired to sleep, very pleasant thoughts filled the mind of the young man thoughts of a worthy action perform'd thoughts, too, newly awakened ones, of walking in a steadier and wiser path than formerly. That roof, then, sheltered two beings that night one of them innocent and sinless of all wrong the other oh, to that other what evil had not been present, either in action or to his desires!
Brooke in arranging "documents" about hanging sheep-stealers, was exemplifying the power our minds have of riding several horses at once by inwardly arranging measures towards getting a lodging for himself in Middlemarch and cutting short his constant residence at the Grange; while there flitted through all these steadier images a tickling vision of a sheep-stealing epic written with Homeric particularity.
There rose in Dunham the involuntary desire to protect that any man who saw her would have felt. "And to pay your expenses until you do find it," he added hastily. "That is Judge Trent's idea," he declared, in a recklessly encouraging tone. "To pay your expenses so long as you need it." The girl's quivering smile grew steadier. Her pride stiffened under this man's regard.
Then that I was on a raft danced up and down by the foaming waters. Now, that I was on deck, and was pitched overboard, and left to struggle alone amid the raging seas. My voice as I shouted out for help awoke me; and to my infinite satisfaction I found that the vessel was much steadier than she had hitherto been.
"I am not a fit person for you to associate with." "I don't believe it!" Miss Jethro sighed bitterly. "Young and warm hearted I was once like you!" She controlled that outburst of despair. Her next words were spoken in steadier tones. "You will have it you shall have it!" she said. A wretch in my situation suspects everybody, and worse still, does it without reason or excuse.
"... Beyond the fascinations of poetry, there is a calmer and steadier pleasure in acquiring and communicating the knowledge of what has been, and of what is. I am passionately fond of history, even when I have been delighted with the act of poetical composition. The recollection that all was fable in the story with which I have exerted myself, frequently mingled with the delight.
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