ever and anon

English

Adverb

ever and anon (not comparable)

  1. (literary) now and then
    • 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1:
      Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions

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