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
A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each of the quartette seemed to be singularly ill at ease.
From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard
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 Braden, James A. (James Andrew)
