quintette

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At Lyons the quintette dissolved with emotional embraces, the four going westward, and he northward in the night train.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

Still another of this famous quintette to whom the running of a 650 mile railroad division was as but part of a day’s work—James H. Hustis.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

A few of them have been serious and worth while, notably a piano concerto, a quintette, four string quartettes, a mass, and several orchestral suites.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

“Father and mother have gone away,” proclaimed Ptolemy, who was always spokesman for the quintette.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

She attended him to the portico, disclaiming, cautioning, and thanking him,—gesticulating through it all—as the wickedest of the wicked quintette of observers had it—"like a lunatic windmill."

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion