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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Example Sentences

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rightly we speak ever and again in our day of the Frederician spirit.

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

And he knew that ever and again boys who started working for great merchants became great merchants themselves.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes