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	know_v	see_v	1,774	5	3.0076	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01749	A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight	Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.; Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1576 (1576)	STC 11881; ESTC S105732	27,387	91

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