The Homer she had first known could never have ridden, roughshod, over the basically gentle Dr. Smythe.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Since both of these types have basically the same arrangement of keyboard, wrest plank, hitch pins, strings and jacks, and since both types were known as virginals in 17th-century England, it is logical to reserve the term spinet for another kind of instrument, namely the one with the wrest plank and tuning pins in front over the keyboard, and with the strings stretched diagonally.
"Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries"
John D. Shortridge
The company depended basically upon decisions reached in four great quarter courts, which were general assemblies of all the adventurers who wished to attend and which were scheduled for regular meeting on next to the last Wednesday of each of the quarterly terms in which the king's courts sat at Westminster.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven