virginal

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Virginal student Abby falls for tattooed bad boy Travis but she's fleeing from her past and he reminds her of it, so how can they ever be together?

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2012

Mr. Weiss was on his own on Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church, when he opened the Music Before 1800 season with “A Cleare Day,” a program of selections from the “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.”

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2011

The unofficially censored book is Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind, published by Scribner's last August, now unobtainable at many a bookstore.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tune of the "Carman's Whistle" was composed by Bird, and the favourite tune of "Queen Elizabeth" may be found in the collection called "Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

Another well-known Virginal Book, that at the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, commonly known as 'Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book,' is being published by Breitkopf & Härtel.

From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)