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
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 Morrison, Gertrude W.
The quartette were about to separate the last car from the train.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
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
