Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	age_n	time_n	write_v	2,053	5	5.4074	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62313	Monsieur Scarron's letters, to persons of the greatest eminency and quality rendred into English by John Davies ...; Correspondence. English. Selections	Scarron, Monsieur, 1610-1660.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1677 (1677)	Wing S832; ESTC R13034	53,437	162

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