ever and again

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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