From Time To Time Meaning
(obsolete) Continuously from one time to another; at all times, constantly.
Example: c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, scene 3:
I'll find out your man, / And he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here.
1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Ch.25:
On these red embers Hatteraick from time to time threw a handful of twigs.
1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter IX, The Younger Set:
“A tight little craft,†was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
1922, T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, ll.196-197:
But at my back from time to time I hear / The sound of horns and motors.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
So was she trayned vp from time to time, / In all chast vertue, and true bounti-hed / Till to her dew perfection she was ripened.
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