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
Among the vilest of the lampooners of that age were a quartette of literary hacks who for some years were engaged in denouncing the federalist party and government.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
“Indeed it will; the old quartette together again,” Sally agreed.
From The Twins in the South by Dorothy Whitehill
They belonged to the Hickory Ridge Troop of Boy Scouts, which lively town was situated many miles to the south of the place where we discover the quartette up against a puzzling question.
From Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Alan Douglas
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