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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Steady
 
  Steady as a church.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Steady as a clock.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Steady as a rock.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Steady as Old Time.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Braced and steady, like a game man facing a firing squad.
            —Irvin S. Cobb		  5
                Steady,
Like eyes suffused with rapture.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  6
                Steady
As if our footsteps had begun
To print the golden streets already!
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  7
  Steady as a church.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  8
  Steady as clock-work.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  9
  Steady as the ocean waves.
            —Charles Sangster		  10
  Steady as tramp of marching feet.
            —Celia Thaxter		  11
  Steady as a mill.
            —Mark Twain		  12
  Steady as a hay wagon.
            —Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano Valera		  13
  Steady as the pole.
            —Isaac Watts		  14
 
 
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