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

A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.

From Time Magazine Archive

He became contemplatively interested in the trio, although he knew the ways of that wicked world far too well to suppose for an instant that he would be allowed to make a quartette of it.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson

In the quartette Ouida, my Baronite says, will be found at her best—Ouida, without the weeds of grossness and comical classicality that sometimes grow in her pastures.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various