still and anon
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]still and anon (not comparable)
- (literary) Now and then.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
- 1810, John Stagg, “Odo the Proud”, in The Minstrel of the North: or, Cumbrian Legends[1], London: for the author, page 374:
- It seem’d as if hell had burst forth in a crowd,
And fury permitted to range;
When still and anon was re-echo’d aloud—
“Come forth, thou base tyrant! thou Odo the Proud!
For Morcar and Hilda, revenge!”
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121,[2]
- And as across the smoothing sea we roam,
- Still and anon we sang our songs of home.