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
A quartette of picked singers may be introduced very delightfully on occasion, especially if their selection is germane to the lesson topic, and, best of all, if the quartette is chosen from the scholars themselves.
From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.
At the time of her visits at Channing's cottage Thoreau was sojourning with Emerson, and we may be sure that the quartette of starry souls, thus juxtapos�, held much soulful and edifying converse.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
