Definition of "ever and anon" []

• Now and then (adverb)

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• "Around the horizon of his countenance there spread a dark and six-days 'beard, like a slowly rising thundercloud; ever and anon there was a gleam of white teeth, like a bright break in the sky, but it meant nothing."
• "During the day the megapode is sometimes silent, but ever and anon it gives way to what may in charity be presumed to be a crow — - an uncouth, discordant effort to imitate the boastful, tuneful challenge of the civilised rooster."
• "I went on with my day's business tranquilly; but ever and anon vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit Thornfield; and I kept involuntarily framing advertisements and pondering conjectures about new situations: these thoughts I did not think it necessary to check; they might germinate and bear fruit if they could."