quintette

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A few of them have been serious and worth while, notably a piano concerto, a quintette, four string quartettes, a mass, and several orchestral suites.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Now that the Five Travelers, as the quintette of Sanford girls loved to call themselves, were once more settled in the country of college, their devoted friends had already planned to honor them.

From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Lester, Pauline

The meeting over, the Sanford quintette stood off to one side, waiting for Miss Graham.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

Ten minutes later Lennie Browne, one of the juniors, disturbed the quintette on the wheelbarrow with a message.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John

And looking downward, the quintette saw the bottom strewn with oysters of unusual size, lying so close together that in many places they seemed to touch each other.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester