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
A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
That particular quartette was built on a musical phrase begun by one of the sopranos and repeated by each.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
Scarcely had it touched the ground before the hungry quartette were tearing it with their beaks.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
