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	time_n	write_v	5,605	5	5.4143	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56776	Some observations made upon the wood called lignum nephriticum imported from Hispaniola shewing its admirable virtues in dissolving the stone in the reins and bladder, helping the strangury and stoppings in the water and easing all pains proceeding from thence, &c. / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physicians in London.	Peachi, John, fl. 1683.; Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing P941; ESTC R12094	1,577	9

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