Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Steady

Steady as a church.
—Anonymous

Steady as a clock.
—Anonymous

Steady as a rock.
—Anonymous

Steady as Old Time.
—Anonymous

Braced and steady, like a game man facing a firing squad.
—Irvin S. Cobb

Steady,
Like eyes suffused with rapture.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Steady
As if our footsteps had begun
To print the golden streets already!
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Steady as a church.
—Alfred Henry Lewis

Steady as clock-work.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Steady as the ocean waves.
—Charles Sangster

Steady as tramp of marching feet.
—Celia Thaxter

Steady as a mill.
—Mark Twain

Steady as a hay wagon.
—Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano Valera

Steady as the pole.
—Isaac Watts