The low murmuring of the priests could now be heard in prayer and exhortation, with the faint responses of the prisoners, and now and then the voices of the choir at a distance, chanting the Litanies of the saints.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
After this the mass was celebrated, the holy communion administered to him and holy water sprinkled over him, and he was led in procession with reading of Litanies to the entrance of the purgatory, where a third attempt was made to dissuade him from entering.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Every one of the six Litanies begins with language similar to that which he recommended.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington