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

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 Chapman, Allen

For an old bachelor like me, who has known no family—to secure the confidence and liking of such a quartette of young folk, is a privilege I fully appreciate.

From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Hill, Grace Brooks