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now and then
adverb as in once in a while
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Do we not see that it is highly requisite that a sweet girl should be now-and-then drawn aside by him?
A sweet and grateful flush then overspread her fair face; a gentle sigh now-and-then heaved her handkerchief.
Now-and-then she changed her censuring looks to looks of pity of me—but (as she said) she loved not to aggravate!
His now-and-then wife put up a warning finger to indicate Mrs. Whitcomb's presence at the writing desk.
He then hastened that, as I heard him now-and-then, with a hearty curse upon the cook and waiters.
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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to now and then, such as: every now and then, every so often, infrequently, intermittently, now and again, and occasionally.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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