All 4 Uses of
steadfast
in
Hard Times
- She stood there, looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- She was so steadfastly occupied, that many minutes elapsed before she looked up from her work; when she did so Mr. Bounderby bespoke her attention with a hitch of his head.†
Chpt 1.16
- Having satisfied himself, on his father's death, that his mother had a right of settlement in Coketown, this excellent young economist had asserted that right for her with such a steadfast adherence to the principle of the case, that she had been shut up in the workhouse ever since.†
Chpt 2.1
- Her father might instinctively have loosened his hold, but that he felt her strength departing from her, and saw a wild dilating fire in the eyes steadfastly regarding him.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(steadfast) firmly consistent -- especially in loyalty