Why not get up a quintette, and let Matt Bray there take the drum, and charming Sir Harry Payne the cymbals?"
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
He sang while he took his turn at sitting; then he nearly choked to death trying to sing while stuffing a bug down a nestling's throat; finally, he sang at the end of a perfect nesting season; again, in hopes of persuading his mate to repeat it all, and this failing, sang in chorus in the wren quintette-I hoped, in gratitude to us.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
"Not with you to back up so formidable a quintette of stalwarts," assented the tall visitor gaily.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy