still and anon

still and anon (not comparable)

1. (literary) Now and then.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,

     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,

     Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.

   • 1810, John Stagg, “Odo the Proud” in The Minstrel of the North: or, Cumbrian Legends, London: for the author, p. 374,

     It seem’d as if hell had burst forth in a crowd,

     And fury permitted to range;

     When still and anon was re-echo’d aloud—

     “Come forth, thou base tyrant! thou Odo the Proud!

     For Morcar and Hilda, revenge!”

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121,

     And as across the smoothing sea we roam,

     Still and anon we sang our songs of home.

• ever and anon