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
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 not a very happy quartette of lads who made their way back to the Darewell High School.
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Allen Chapman
At last one of the quartette, biting his lips for fear of laughing outright, held out his hand with a contemptuous gesture, saying: "Good-bye, Salabert—au revoir."
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
You used to live in an artistic circle, that you could charm with a Beethoven quartette.
From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell
