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	king_n	year_n	3,080	5	4.8170	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57506	The history of infamous impostors, or, The lives & actions of several notorious counterfeits who from the most abject and meanest of the people, have usurped the titles of emperours, kings, and princes / written by the Sr. J.B. de Ricoles ... ; and now done into English.; Imposteurs insignes. English	Rocoles, Jean-Baptiste de, 1620-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1766; ESTC R6847	75,558	204

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