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

A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Dave and Phil, now some distance forward, also hastened back, and together the quartette climbed the rise of ground toward the woods.

From The Auto Boys' Quest by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)