"ever and anon" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 134",
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          "ref": "1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1",
          "text": "Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions",
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        "Now and then."
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        "(literary) Now and then."
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "now and then",
          "word": "af en toe"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "now and then",
          "word": "nu en dan"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vremja ot vremeni",
          "sense": "now and then",
          "word": "время от времени"
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        "Now and then."
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        "(literary) Now and then."
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      "sense": "now and then",
      "word": "af en toe"
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      "sense": "now and then",
      "word": "nu en dan"
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      "roman": "vremja ot vremeni",
      "sense": "now and then",
      "word": "время от времени"
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