quintette

Example Sentences

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The party ate what Neale and the girls prepared, and there was very little said among the quintette.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Gooch, Thelma

Delightful music; two quartettes of Beethoven's, a quintette of Mozart's, which I heard at Joseph Coolidge's some thirty or more years ago.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

That quintette of Hummel's is a most charming composition—so flowing and elegant—and one can display a good deal of virtuosity in the last part of it.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

She attended him to the portico, disclaiming, cautioning, and thanking him,—gesticulating through it all—as the wickedest of the wicked quintette of observers had it—"like a lunatic windmill."

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

And looking downward, the quintette saw the bottom strewn with oysters of unusual size, lying so close together that in many places they seemed to touch each other.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester