ever and again

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

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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.

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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