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  • Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force.
  • He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning.
  • With water all around me I had little choice but to sit under a leaky tarpaulin beside chain-smokers and crying children, only now and then getting a glimpse up into the vast forests I was entering.
  • There are too many 'yous' and 'yours' in it; you ought to say 'one' now and then, to make it seem more like good writing. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted. Red-Robin
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  • With Maureen and Jane it seemed improbable, but every now and then I caught myself wondering if the tempestuous Alessandra felt even a slight tendresse. Why Women Still Don't Get It
  • Success is like a bubble and only appears now and then. Times, Sunday Times
  • Actually now that you mention the hotwheels I used to carry pez dispensers which would often 'disappear' and then pen markers that 'smelled' - I guess smelling grape every now and then made a bad day a little better. Which one/s were you? Age 2-10
  • Oh sure ... every now and then throw in a Chuck Berry duckwalk while you grin like an idiot. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • On one occasion we enjoyed a medium drift down a V-shaped channel, watching the usual teeming reef life flash by below and finning back every now and then to peer into crevices before being swept on.
  • Consume these drinks now and then to avoid intestinal worms.
  • Every now and then amongst the usual searches I get some strange search requests from Google appear in my stats.
  • Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.
  • I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton 
  • Yet now and then you feel the tug, standing in front of a full-length mirror, fantasizing about cannonball shoulders and chiseled biceps.
  • Ruth deposited her wet mackintosh on the floor and went upstairs, shivering every now and then.
  • It is wonderful how Judith, with her quite unspecialised knowledge of history can now and then put her finger upon something vital. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
  • True, in the august presence of rhombohedral crystals, retinasphaltic resins, gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates of manganese, and titanite of zirconium, why, the most facile of tongues may make a slip now and then. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
  • They have their cold days, but only now and then, and they do not deem it worth their while to provide against them: the science of calefaction is reserved for the north. Life of Father Hecker
  • I have to complete and defend my dissertation and survive teaching undergrads between now and then.
  • Every now and then official vehicles bearing ministers of government appeared on the scene.
  • Every now and then, an experience would serve as a reminder that intelligent marine mammals can be aggressive as well as friendly; that you must operate with respect in what is their patch.
  • But most of the female population likes to put on a bit of slap now and then for self-confidence and attracting men so for that alone it gives guys some peace.
  • I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
  • Every now and then we see someone cruising down- or upriver on a boat. Learning to Die in Miami
  • The pictures look fabulous, and your travelogue is so inspiring - I need to get off this damn island every now and then. Home Again, Home Again...
  • Every now and then when Lady Flora wanted to talk scandal with her friends, Honor was allowed to go riding.
  • Smith did not care much for loper in any form; the meat was too strongly flavored for his taste-but it, was better than nothing and kept them from digging too deeply into food they had hauled along, Dora did not share her husband's distaste for loper meat; born there aid having eaten it now and then since earliest childhood, it seemed to her a normal food. \par Time Enough For Love
  • Broadcasters will find ways to cope, though between now and then there will be plenty of breast-beating and tantrums.
  • Every now and then we would slip away to fish for sprats and cockabullies.
  • They just call me tight now and then! The Sun
  • There were couples standing by the cascade in the middle of the town adoring each other and kissing every now and then.
  • I heard now and then a sound that resembled the swift flight of a bird or the sudden "ting" of a telegraph-wire. The Dark Forest
  • Every now and then a car rumbled over the bumpy dirt road, leaving behind a whirl of white dust.
  • While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you. Wanderings in South America
  • This last haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods, and makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise, now and then, at short intervals, shivering a little with its wings when it sings; and is, I make no doubt now, the _regulus non cristatus_ of Ray, which he says "_cantat voce stridula locustae_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.
  • I could see the muscles of his arms tensing every now and then.
  • Across the waste floated now and then the cry of a bird, but other sound there was none in this land of drearihead. Alec Forbes of Howglen
  • Now and then splurge on something special like raspberries, or melon out of season. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
  • It was thirty pages long, column after column of kanji characters arranged vertically on the pages, with never a strikeover or erasure, now and then a crude stick-figure drawing with arrows or dotted lines signifying this or that mysterious pathology. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
  • It's normal for couples to argue now and then.
  • I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton 
  • Everyone needs to have a good laugh now and then, to see the funny side of things, and to laugh at himself.
  • The minister preaches a sermon now and then.
  • In the garden, Gretchen appears and reappears now and then to bring her cups of tea or glasses of juice.
  • The implication is that between now and then the auditors directly employed by the commission are sacked (and join private firms) or somehow retain their pensions and benefits (at huge cost to the public purse) and are magicked across into the private sector. Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
  • Behind, the young women are fast asleep, their heads gently bumping against each other now and then.
  • Now and then a man may arise among us who in any calling, whether it be in law, in physic, in religious teaching, in art, or literature, may in his professional enthusiasm utterly disregard money.
  • Perhaps she falls (never in a way to injure herself) to the floor and apparently loses consciousness, closes her eyes, rolls her head from side to side, moans, clenches her fists, lifts her body from the floor so that it rests on head and heels (opisthotonic hysteria), shrieks now and then and altogether presents a terrifying spectacle. The Foundations of Personality
  • Of course, their eyes, skin, tongue, breath, and lack of vim and vigor tell the story of a long process of self-poisoning, with every now and then the eventuation of a storm of foulness, called a bilious attack -- meaning an overflow of filth. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Keep their roots shaded with gravel or some large stones, mulch them now and then and they'll be happy for years.
  • And we play all day and all night and we get dirty faces and we have little tiffs and we call each other names now and then, but it sure is fun as hell to get to know the kids in the neighborhood.
  • Now and then one would be too close and the wadd would tear 'em up so bad we couldn't eat 'em. Skeet Fishing
  • Now and then, a rickshaw wallah or an empty tonga, driver half asleep, weary horse barely moving, strayed across their path. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • Speaking of the award, he said: ‘I was most surprised because I just toddle on doing a little bit now and then.’
  • Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
  • You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
  • She sat down behind the lowered persienne, and every now and then lifted her eyes from the page and peered out between the tiny slits. The Convert
  • All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz 
  • Success is like a bubble and only appears now and then. Times, Sunday Times
  • I remembered him sitting and watching me, nursing his drink for hours, every now and then dipping his tongue to sip.
  • It would be strange indeed if a man so exceedingly daring did not now and then overdare. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • Canned salmon sold at eleven cents a can, and Aunt Pat splurged now and then and served fried salmon cakes.
  • There's gonna be a whole lotta study done between now and then.
  • Every now and then a word identified itself to me as something I recognized. Generous Death
  • I said that Sis smoked now and then, because she thought it looked smart; but that, if I was to have a Career, I felt that the sootheing influence of tobaco would help a lot. Bab: A Sub-Deb
  • She now and then drowsed away into a half sleep.
  • The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatized from them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
  • I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular, and too cautious — We should sometimes increase the motion of the machine, to unclog the wheels of life; and now and then take a plunge amidst the waves of excess, in order to caseharden the constitution. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • Every now and then the fog would break for a moment, exposing the mountain range looming in the distance.
  • Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille. MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
  • I was slowly going mad with joy and trying my best to keep looking normal, pawing a CD every now and then.
  • And every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
  • Every now and then a walker, runner or cyclist would pass, a squirrel searched for a tree in a totally treeless landscape and miner bees hovered over their holes.
  • Now and then a pair of lobsters, plated in Prussian blue, jousted in their underwater dungeon.
  • Now and then she would stop to shake her head, toss her smooth honey-coloured plaits over her shoulders, and screw her face into a caricature Aunt Etta's expression. Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday
  • There is already among the British soldiers an immense vocabulary of slang or colloquialisms, driblets of which reach us now and then.
  • Well, keep them in fairyland then, or at least only let them out for visits now and then. Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story
  • Four decades later, that music still holds sway, sounding its plaintive strains of influence, some kind of persisting technicolor musica sacra that makes an appearance, now and then, in my poet's head as I compose. Michele Somerville: A Kitten Mother's Hymn to Chinese Parenting
  • An occasional benevolent Christian complied with his request to the extent of a dig with a stout boot under the rib; but every now and then, the furibund jarvey apologised to us for the slowness of our course by asking -- "Won't I serve him out when Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
  • The vital question about the human rights practices inside the Tindouf four camps is the freedom of expression and even of movement. although Polisario officials confirm every now and then that sahraoui refugees are allowed to leave the camps any time they would like to do so, sahraouis need Algerian documents if they decide to leave and travel abroad, to get such document is not easy, unless you are a Polisario official or you have useful contacts within the sphere of Polisario leadership, but it is known that any saharoui who managed to leave the refugee camp and opt to go to western Sahara region, Moroccan authorities provide the person in question with necessary documents including a passport. Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest
  • 'Brecknel and Turner's' flamed and swealed in profusion on the table; while every now and then an expiring lamp on the sideboards or brackets proclaimed the unwonted splendour of the scene, and added a flavour to the repast not contemplated by the cook. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • And I can't really tell you how it was made, as I spent the entire recipe-making time chopping walnuts and chestnuts, sneaking teeny bits in every now and then.
  • As he passed along he would every now and then draw a maravedi out of his pocket and bestow it on a beggar, with an air of signal beneficence. Washington Irving
  • Another main difference for me between now and then is that I no longer take plagiarism personally.
  • The four berobed Klingons pounded their spears now and then and roared softly in outrage -- or maybe enthusiasm. Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon
  • At my time of life, food and clothing be all that is needed; and I have little occasion for what you call plunder, unless it may be, now and then, to barter for a horn of powder, or a bar of lead. The Prairie
  • The ad is so fun, fast and sexy that I'm a Pepsi convert and I don't even drink cola except now and then with rum.
  • But as you are a kind of uncrowned queen these days, Kara, I thought you might be permitted to offer a sweet now and then to your ladies in waiting. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest
  • Every now and then, there emerges a star, which, by its sheer brilliance, throws light far from where it originated.
  • Doesn't matter that my most common response is to point out that aphorisms are the cheapest form of intelligent comment, I get reminded now and then that sarcasm just isn't on.
  • But now and then, amid the buzz and the din, a voice catches your attention. Christianity Today
  • Even though every time Scott would stay at his house he would pull out his stash of assorted drugs and start smoking right in his face, not to mention offering him a hit every now and then.
  • They listened with edification to the racy remarks of their hostess, voicing that theoretical "broadness" of opinion as to the conduct of life which, quite as much as the perfume which she always used, was a specialty of her provocative personality; they spoke now and then, to be sure, as she drew them into conversation, but their real intercourse was almost altogether silent. The Bent Twig
  • Now and then a bird's song broke in upon the silence of the wood.
  • Now and then one would stand and stare, his eye-balls gleaming like coals of fire; and at last came the roar of the gun, and the jacklight tumbled to the ground. Love's Pilgrimage
  • She let go of him and began climbing the ladder, glancing back now and then to make sure he was following.
  • I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton 
  • And if she enjoyed a tot of Scotch whiskey every now and then, well, they liked that too.
  • They didn't see it was a struggle they must lose in the end, and so for twenty-five years the scrappy, unorganised warfare had smouldered on, with every now and then a real dust-up to stoke the growing hatred and mistrust on both sides. Isabelle
  • Now and then a bird's song broke in upon the silence of the wood.
  • Its now buried in a storage room with all my surf plugs weights, leaders, ect. as surf is not very common around Illinois, although it comes out now and then for Kings in lake Michigan or carp. What is you're surf rod?
  • The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
  • I stared after her for a moment or more, watching the pretty brown dress flashing in and out of shadow among the ragged greeneries, shafts of sunshine now and then flashing upon her hair. The Guest of Quesnay
  • Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream. Memoirs
  • I can sharpen the edge back to what it was before, and repolish the blade itself, but all my work will be for naught if you don't clean it every now and then.
  • The minister preaches a sermon now and then.
  • She does now and then hector a little.
  • Every now and then, I stumble across a product that reminds me why I am so fascinated by computers.
  • Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers.
  • The emigrants had great fun at first coaxing their unwary fellows to stand near the windward gangway, and get well "soused" by the water which now and then came dashing over the rails. The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
  • But now and then, amid the buzz and the din, a voice catches your attention. Christianity Today
  • But now and then we had breakthroughs that, I think, changed the relationship between our countries with long-term consequences. The Good Fight
  • He also liked to change his plans or decisions without letting me know and then, if something happened, put all the blame for the situation on me.
  • If there were, indeed, an intramercurial planet, then it must occasionally cross between the earth and the sun, and might now and then be expected to be witnessed in the actual act of transit. Great Astronomers
  • But every now and then some patient managed to break through the mental barrier erected by training, habit, and self-defence.
  • Sakura blushed as he measured her, his skin brushing against hers now and then.
  • Would it cost so much to employ a groundsman to keep the grass down and a few cleaners to give the place the once-over with a duster every now and then?
  • Men of all ages simply kept their distance, though sometimes every now and then one would come and try to anger and provoke her.
  • The dailies would clock him every now and then, leaving his flat and cowering under a flash of camera light.
  • Even curtains and blinds should be washed every now and then to remove dust.
  • I spent an hour mesmerised by the waves, washing in and out across the sand, every now and then throwing up coloured gems.
  • But beyond this lie ten miles of pahoehoe, the lava-flows of ages, with only now and then the vestige of a trail. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • The tears gathered and fell, quietly, all through the process of dressing; and a sort of sob heaved from the child's breast now and then, without words and most involuntary. Melbourne House
  • Every now and then I'll move my arm and I'll get this tingly sensation running all the way down it.
  • We want a two-fisted God who comes up like thunder, and we are offended by one who puts himself/herself at our mercy and who now and then looks a lot like our Uncle Fred.
  • Now and then, to ‘change the atmosphere, ’ Hoa and her roommates imagine a dream dinner. “While we are eating vegetables, we pretend that we are eating a chicken leg, or pork or fish.
  • She now and then drowsed away into a half sleep.
  • Now and then the man in the intervals of his singing patted the dog, and spoke to him caressingly; and the dog looked at him with a gratitude which reached immensity through its unspeakableness. The Lost Dog.
  • Some crickets were chirping quietly and a few gusts of wind would rush past us every now and then.
  • I admit I respect his body of work but every now and then I'll send him an e-mail just to wind him up.
  • Every now and then things seem brighter and someone waves their hand in front of my face to wake me up, but I keep ending up here burying myself in answerless questions. Robitessin Diary Entry
  • Yeah, they come up and say g'day every now and then.
  • Every now and then, I'm blessed with a moment; an aliquot of time apart from the usual hustle and bustle, the endless rushing here and there between appointments and obligations to just stop and be, quietly at one with the universe. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Most teachers hold that students will come to no great harm if they go to a discotheque now and then.
  • Every now and then, supply vehicles are sent out to get food, medicine and illicit black market goods.
  • She's generally six months ahead of any mainstream trend, but now and then, she'll appear in something so unwearable that it disappears without a trace.
  • One bag of chips every now and then is NOT a flagrant disregard for their health.
  • The other old man, whose clothes were equally squalid, sat more upright, and seemed livelier, and of a lighter heart, misfortune not having yet touched so blightingly the natural volatility of his disposition; for, now and then, he spoke in low tones to his companion, who sometimes smiled, but rarely made answer. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
  • Book-fanciers now and then bid a few shillings, for a copy of the catalogue of his library; and some sly free-thinkers, of modern date, are not backward in shewing a sympathy in their predecessor's fame, by the readiness with which they bid a half-guinea, or more, for a _priced copy_ of it. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • The greenth used to take my breath away back when I was living there and flying back and forth from Australia every now and then. In a strange land
  • A dollop of romance now and then is good for everybody.
  • The local grocer, at whose shop Momma used to have a few quick pulls at the hubble-bubble now and then, was his chief counsellor.
  • Still, now and then a giant does some feat quite beyond the power of man, such as a giant in Barra, who fished up a hero, boat and all, with his fishing-rod, from a rock and threw him over his head, as little boys do 'cuddies' from the pier end. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
  • On most washdays I use chlorine bleach on several articles whose labels proscribe it, without the slightest damage, and many of these have been receiving chlorine bleach now and then for years. HOME COMFORTS
  • Every now and then people in a deep coma are wrongly declared dead, and survive the experience.
  • Unlike that animal, the mare after once conceiving cannot be rendered pregnant again, but brings forth one foal only, at least as a general rule; in the human species cases of superfoetation are rare, but they do happen now and then. The History of Animals
  • And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Every now and then by accident I meet people who do my walks, and out on the bike the other day I bumped into a couple who recommended walks Wetherby way.
  • All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz 
  • I switch furniture between rooms now and then to ring the changes without spending money. The Sun
  • There are laws there to protect the mentally ill, but now and then someone does slip through the net.
  • Her boyfirned is lookin scruffy but who cares who all do now and then lol. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Britney Spears & Jason Trawick Sneak Off To Santa Barbara, CA
  • Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously.
  • Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur. The Yosemite National Park
  • And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff.
  • We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh.
  • Every now and then, a vanity press mogul makes a go of his venture.
  • Success is like a bubble and only appears now and then. Times, Sunday Times
  • The leprechaun skipped along, his footsteps impossibly light, with his face buried in The Hobbit, laughing every now and then or muttering a "begorra. The Woods Out Back
  • And now and then was to be heard from the whole collection of human beings a heavy sigh, after which the humiliating old man would cough shamelessly, and Miss Marchmont hinnied like a horse. Jacob's Room
  • The night was pitch-black, and the only source of light was from the lightning bolts which flashed through the darkened sky every now and then.
  • Every now and then I get invited to pre-release screenings of new films.
  • Every now and then, as he squeezes out lentils or scoops up Parmesan disks, he pauses and stares pensively into space. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • Every now and then, we'd break off into pairs for kumite, or sparring.
  • Now and then came the unruffled voice of a female dispatcher, droning numbers and code words. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
  • Looking over my notes of this excursion, I come upon the following sentence: "To sit on a stone beside a mountain road, with olive-backed thrushes piping on every side, the ear catching now and then the distant tinkle of a winter wren's tune, or the nearer _zee, zee, zee_ of black-poll warblers, while white-throated sparrows call cheerily out of the spruce forest -- this is to be in another world. The Foot-path Way
  • Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
  • He says they stop the train every now and then to point out interesting features on the landscape or to boil the billy.
  • The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath.
  • Then every now and then she sleeps on me or she cuddles me and purrs and nuzzles and she's totally adorable.
  • They talk as if the anchorman was eased out of his job merely for some error of fact such as any journalist is statistically certain to make every now and then.
  • I told him I just wanted him to stay in touch, visit us now and then, and return my phone calls.
  • -- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
  • He's not perfect, he slips up now and then, and when it does, it always costs him dearly, but Lord, he does shuffle loose-jointedly through his adventures with a skill and grace I couldn't help but envy. Archive 2009-10-01
  • Every now and then, we can hear the dull thuds of exploded ordinance - over Mosul?
  • I like to go to the opera now and then.
  • It doesn't hurt to be offended now and then. Times, Sunday Times
  • Honestly, this movie doesn't even really have jokes: it sets up comic situations every now and then, pads them out endlessly looking for something funny, then, not finding a joke lurking anywhere, the film sullenly moves on.
  • Every now and then, we hear about daylight robberies, shootouts, murders and bomb blasts.
  • [The street] was unpaved; and down the middle a gutter forced its way, every now and then forming pools in the holes with which the street abounded.
  • The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • Some hold furthermore an opinion that in over rank soils their dung doth so qualify the batableness of the soil that their cattle is thereby kept from the garget, and sundry other diseases, although some of them come to their ends now and then by licking up of their feathers. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • He fondly recalls the Via Clelia mantled in snow and then corrects himself: This was the Irish snow of Joyce's "The Dead" lending the street "a luster that would never have existed outside of books"—or in Italy. Booking a Journey
  • Every now and then the scientist and anthropologists discovers new evidences, which fortify India's claim of being culturally most advanced in the ancient times.
  • Every now and then, we in the gaming community are presented with a pathetic excuse for a video game, a console port.
  • Hernandez, who now pitches for the Washington Nationals, would put them to use now and then by blindfolding Motuzas. Meet Baseball's Human Garbage Can
  • Now and then comes a stranger who is going across the fjeld, but things are no longer, I am told, as they were in other years, when visitors came in droves. Look Back on Happiness
  • Detailed reports came home regularly though homework, thankfully, was only required now and then. Times, Sunday Times
  • A little dog tied up outside of Chin's is lonely, but people stop now and then to pet him and tell him how cute he is.
  • Every now and then, the scenic route would change.
  • Simmer over a gentle heat, stirring every now and then, for about 15 mintes until the rhubarb is soft. Rhubarb and other nice things
  • His composition is now and then somewhat disconnected; the impressions are vague, almost illusory, and the mirage is a little obscure, but the intense and abiding charm of Nature remains. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Every now and then I get a craving for fried chicken - then pig out and it leaves me with a barfy feeling.
  • Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp.
  • Hopeless as was the attempt to catch the bird, the joy of frightening it was sure; and our guide sprang wildly from side to side of the building, uttering exciting exclamations, and making vain passes at the little creature, which flew round high above her head, now and then settling in some secure "coigne of vantage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
  • —A daimen-icker, a corn-ear now and then; thrave, shock. Notes: Book Third. Palgrave, Francis T

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