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
Where is the fourth member of the quartette?
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Allen Chapman
She went then with Nellie and Laura and Jess, and the quartette were almost the first girls to enter the building that day.
From The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery by Gertrude W. Morrison
Third-class included an interesting quartette of stubby Spanish soldiers, and one slim naval stoker, whose flexible movements and sportive bonhomie were in striking contrast to the stolid immobility of his companions.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
