Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	great_a	part_n	vein_n	5,273	4	9.4224	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93563	Electra of Sophocles presented to Her Highnesse the Lady Elizabeth; with an epilogue, shewing the parallell in two poems, the return, and the restauration. By C.W.; Electra. English	Sophocles.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing S4690; Thomason E1216_2; ESTC R203592	46,949	113

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