quintette

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The music stopped just then and our quintette with the partners collected in our corner.

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

Now that the Five Travelers, as the quintette of Sanford girls loved to call themselves, were once more settled in the country of college, their devoted friends had already planned to honor them.

From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Lester, Pauline

Jesting in this fashion the quintette had again taken up their walk, this time headed for Acasia House.

From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline

A few of them have been serious and worth while, notably a piano concerto, a quintette, four string quartettes, a mass, and several orchestral suites.

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

The flying wheel of arms and legs slacked, ran a few times, then slowly stopped, and the Polydore quintette assumed normal positions.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris