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ever and again

Idioms  
  1. Now and then, occasionally. For example, We visit her ever and again. This phrase has largely replaced the earlier ever and anon, dating from the late 1500s, but is less common than every now and then. [Late 1800s]


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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scientists do not like to be called from their laboratory, but ever and again they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 1,000 ft. flew the attack and torpedo planes, ever and again diving earthward with a crescendo of open motors.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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