ever and again

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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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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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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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And he knew that ever and again boys who started working for great merchants became great merchants themselves.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes