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
Soon the quartette were mounting the stairs which led to the Stranger's room.
From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
For an old bachelor like me, who has known no family—to secure the confidence and liking of such a quartette of young folk, is a privilege I fully appreciate.
From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill
My 'Battle Hymn' was sung finely by a male quartette.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
