Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	great_a	know_v	1,662	5	3.4906	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08273	Their Majesties colony of Connecticut in New-England vindicated from the abuses of a pamphlet, licensed and printed at New-York 1694. Intituled, Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut / by an answer thereunto.	Allyn, John, d. 1696.; Pitkin, William, 1635-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1038; ESTC W34067	31,143	48

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