| 1. | She did not seem afraid, and her grave, steadfast eyes looked straight ahead. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | "Marianne is as steadfast as ever, you see," said Elinor, "she is not at all altered.. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | For he is still the most steadfast tower and will-. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | thus flitting, May steadfast be, as here, in his livin. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | grave, steadfast Clothes of gold, and satins rich of hue. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often doubted whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 8. | So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | I wonder what other bridegroom ever looked as he did--so bent up to a purpose, so grimly resolute or who, under such steadfast brows, ever revealed such flaming and flashing eyes. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |