The book was not an immediate best-seller, but critical acclaim and steady word-of-mouth recommendations eventually boosted sales enough for Herbert to become a full-time writer and embark on a sequel.
Occasionally, one or two storefronts that look no different from the rest also do a steady, word-of-mouth business in the illegal sale of OxyContin, oxycodone, Percocet, and other prescription painkillers.
Pope John Paul II urged hundreds of thousands of young Roman Catholics at the church's World Youth Day here to shun materialism, resist sin and embrace Christianity, his steady words giving way at the end to a spontaneous utterance that did not make immediate sense.
By the time it launched nationally in May 2001, it already had a steady word-of-mouth following.
He gets steady work from word-of-mouth recommendations.
There he turns out a steady 1,000 words a day.
But Kerry contends that the slogan does not properly describe George Bush, and his objection is as much to the word "steady" as it is to the claim of "leadership".
Won US Open Cup Key player: Benny Feilhaber The new season in one word: Steady The fallout from Jermaine Jones' six-game suspension and protracted contract wrangle has reverberated around Revolution HQ for much of the off-season, leaving fans scratching their heads at what to expect of last season's play-off flame-outs.
Slow and steady is the word, following a general path to put the nozzle in range of where it needs to shoot.
And at this juncture in the internet's evolution it seems very plain, Dear Online Reader, that you are mostly being served a tsunami of content — accelerated into your attention trough by click-dependent digital business models that require a steady stream of word fodder to engage eyeballs long enough to ambush them with ads.
All this time, they'll muffle this panic with words such as "steady" and "on course", words used to conceal an unsteady veer away from stability.
