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
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
Where is the fourth member of the quartette?
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Allen Chapman
