Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	great_a	read_v	1,593	5	5.6329	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35763	A Description of the Academy of the Athenian virtuosi with a discourse held there in vindication of Mr. Dryden's Conquest of Granada against the author of the Censure of the Rota.		1673 (1673)	Wing D1152; ESTC R13478	16,559	40

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