Entering her igloo two or three at a time they reproachfully recited in chiding chants to Annadoah the story of her life; how her worthy mother and august grand-parents had died, hoping she would choose a husband from the hunters, and how she had refused all who sought her; they told, with Reiterant detail, how she had caused quarrels among the men, and sent many of the warriors in their competitive hunts to death; and how, finally, when Ootah, the bravest of the hunters, wanted to wed her, she had chosen a foreign man, who deserted her and left her a burden on the tribe.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
In Heaven they said so, and at Eden's gate, And here, Reiterant, in the wilderness.
"The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was neither sad nor joyous; it suggested dreamy, Reiterant thoughts; it was not music, but the memory of music.
"The Jonathan Papers"
Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris