steady-going
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Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
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Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee.
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They were steady-going fellows and both were dead shots with the rifle.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
