now and then

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.