"We are our ancestors' children," said Ma in an echo of her familiar litany.

Agent Cobb continued reciting a familiar litany to everyone in the room.

All the while, she was aware of the familiar litany that was echoing through the room.

It was a familiar litany of guilt and self-disgust.

The words were a familiar litany by now.

It was part of what had become a familiar litany: Don't you miss your friends?

More ominously, the study recited a familiar litany of failure.

All over the bridge, a familiar litany of departure was in full activity.

To ask why he left his museum job is to hear a familiar litany of complaints.

And he defends Marxists against the familiar litany of crimes.