still and anon
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time."
- "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, And as across the smoothing sea we roam, Still and anon we sang our songs of home."