Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	answer_v	word_n	write_v	1,797	5	5.2534	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43090	An alarum to pamphleteers, or, The danger of an habeas corpus being a serious and seasonable advice to anti-temporizing scriblers, to desist in time, lest they untimely be forc'd to sing their own obsequies, and write with their own pens in dismall characters their own epitaphs / by R.B.H.	R. B. H.	1659 (1659)	Wing H115A; ESTC R117	3,639	8

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