repeating

“I took the amethyst brooch,” said Anne, as if repeating a lesson she had learned.

“If you worry me by repeating the same thing, I will not bring you any more to eat.”

MacDonald!” he kept repeating.

The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from _Marmion_--which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.