1908, Julia de Wolf Addison, Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages Chapter , …water is of itself fleeting, but by strength of cold it is turned and made stedfast crystal.
, 1915-08-23, Frank P. Walsh, Perilous Philanthropy, … Samuel Gompers directed against the whole Rockefeller investigation into industry, that organized labor will continue to remain sternly aloof and to view this new activity with stedfast distrust.
1935, Charles Caldwell Dobie, San Francisco Tales Chapter , Could heroics give her back her son? Nay, she must be stedfast, even though false security had betrayed her hidden softness.
1979, Edward Albert, History of English Literature Chapter , … Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art, are worthy to be ranked with those of Shakespeare.
