ever and again
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Scientists do not like to be called from their laboratory, but ever and again they are.
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Like a gracious prince?for he is a man of distinction?he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality.
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Effort is made to avoid these ill effects by having men who work under heavy air pressure gradually removed from it; but ever and again, through accident or carelessness, it occurs.
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All week they labored, considering case after case, ever and again despaching small dockets which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan.
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The wind seemed to blow it farther from the boat, and the waves ran under it bewildering his eye, and ever and again it seemed closer to him.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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