quintette

Example Sentences

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They would have a quintette of the same stripe with which to deal.

From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Lester, Pauline

She is a mighty poor judge of human nature if she thinks any of our quintette could lie; but she doesn't believe us on oath.

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

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

This summons from Mr. Tucker had upset her recently acquired politeness and all day she found something to pick on our quintette.

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