steadying

But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God.

She brings him from rear room, her arm about him, steadying him.

Michael Daragh strode to her and put a steadying arm about her shoulders.

She rose and, steadying herself, walked slowly and painfully to the door and back.

Even he could not have continued there, without steadying his form by the aid of the bushes.

For a moment the canoe rocked in spite of its steadying outrigger, with the violence of the activities aboard it.