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Synonyms

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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But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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