quintette

Example Sentences

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All of these movements are performed without pause, and the result is so successful that Whiting is using the same plan for a quintette.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

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

At Lyons the quintette dissolved with emotional embraces, the four going westward, and he northward in the night train.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

The quintette turned hastily, to find themselves confronted with an absolute endorsement of the truth of Lennie's statements.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John

The Seniors want all of our quintette to serve on the committee of entertainment.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell