quartette
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Nutrition faddist John Harvey Kellogg, whose sanatorium briefly embraced Fletcherism, tried to re-enliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,” an original Kellogg composition, while diners grimly toiled.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013
A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Friday night—the very evening on which a certain quartette of other lads had selected their permanent camp in the western edge of the Ship woods.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)
Soon the quartette were mounting the stairs which led to the Stranger's room.
From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard
