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
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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
It was not a very happy quartette of lads who made their way back to the Darewell High School.
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Allen Chapman
It was Friday night—the very evening on which a certain quartette of other lads had selected their permanent camp in the western edge of the Ship woods.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
