quartettes

These "quartettes" were merely another form of the game of "Happy Families," which seems to make so persistent an appeal to the young.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes by Haydn.

Les Miserables 2008

Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping hags; and the “Thou shalt be King” could be quite as mournfully hurled at

Les Miserables 2008

He was a great musical amateur in his way — after business; and had a paternal affection for his violoncello, which was once in every week transported from Islington, his place of abode, to a certain club – room hard by the Bank, where quartettes of the most tormenting and excruciating nature were executed every Wednesday evening by a private party.

Dombey and Son 2007

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. jrittenhouse: S.J. Perelman

- barondave 2007

All who could sing used to assemble, and he would join us, and we learnt duets, trios, quartettes, chorus glees, and so on.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990

"Immediately, if you see no objection," and the nobleman took out of his pocket one of Haydn's quartettes.

Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

An hour was then spent in solos, duets, quartettes, choruses, etc. Then

Doctor Jones' Picnic

Then solos, duets, trios, quartettes, choruses, etc., were sung, and it is not probable that the Barton family ever spent so delightful an evening in their lives.

Doctor Jones' Picnic