"Quintette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cuddy we were only five, but a more uneven quintette I defy you to convene. There was a young fellow named Ready, packed out for his health, and hurrying home to die among friends. There was an outrageously lucky digger, another invalid, for he would drink nothing ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung
... girls gathered in Ethel's room to discuss the peculiar situation. The quintette consisted of Ethel, Adrienne, ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... giving neither word of welcome nor refusal to admit the claim of the strangers; and presently Mrs. Yorke appeared, in a state of overwhelming excitement, and, nothing doubting, straightway fell upon the new arrivals with an attempt to take the whole quintette into her ample embrace. No need of proofs for her; and, seeing this, the captain's doubts were dispersed, and he began a vigorous hand-shaking with each and every one of those present, including Brayton and myself, and repeating the process, until Brayton and I, feeling ourselves to be intruders ...
— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews |
