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
You used to live in an artistic circle, that you could charm with a Beethoven quartette.
From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell
As the quartette approached the remaining cars, Ralph noticed that Mort Bemis was chuckling.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
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
