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	name_n	write_v	6,549	5	5.6975	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77277	A supplement to the Bibliotecha parochialis: or, The country curates library. Being an essay towards providing all the parishes of England, endow'd with not above ten pounds per annum, with a study of useful books, to enable the ministers thereof to instruct the people in all things necessary to salvation. / By Thomas Bray, D.D.	Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730.	1697 (1697)	Wing B4299B; ESTC R233721	6,565	20

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