Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	find_v	year_n	youth_n	33	3	7.3970	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58024	The tragedies of the last age consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients and by the common sense of all ages in a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq. / by Thomas Rymer, of Grays-Inn, Esq.	Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1678 (1678)	Wing R2430; ESTC R2180	47,703	161

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