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synonyms for now and then
- every now and then
- every so often
- infrequently
- intermittently
- now and again
- occasionally
- periodically
- sporadically
- at intervals
- at times
- every once in a while
- from time to time
- hardly
- irregularly
- not often
- off and on
- on occasion
- once and again
- once in a blue moon
- once in a while
- once or twice
- sometimes
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSNow, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLNow first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSNot a word now,” cried Longcluse harshly, extending his hand quickly towards him; “I may do that which can't be undone.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUEvery word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThere was no fighting; a rifle shot now and then from the crests where we saw our fellows clearly.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONAll my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYAs such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYNow this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYWORDS RELATED TO NOW AND THEN
- alternate
- arrested
- broken
- by bits and pieces
- checked
- cyclic
- cyclical
- discontinuing
- discontinuous
- epochal
- every other
- fitful
- here and there
- hit-or-miss
- infrequent
- interrupted
- isochronal
- isochronous
- iterant
- iterative
- metrical
- now and then
- occasional
- on and off
- periodic
- periodical
- punctuated
- recurrent
- recurring
- rhythmic
- rhythmical
- seasonal
- serial
- shifting
- spasmodic
- stop-and-go
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.