steady-going

The most steady-going and venerable institutions began to be reanimated by the infusion of new blood, and to be pervaded by the newest and most 'dangerous' ideas.

He's a steady-going fellow and all that sort of thing.

The man who can bluff most successfully is the steady-going player with whom high stakes are the usual indication of good cards.

You should see him now: a regular steady-going old Dutchman, fat and taciturn, who smokes his afternoons away in the summer-house.

Mr. Cardwell is a dull, steady-going, respectable man, who has no pretension to anything like the rank, social influence, or even popularity of Sidney Herbert.