Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	church_n	holy_a	see_v	1,983	5	3.6223	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34826	A poem on the late civil war by Mr. Abraham Cowley.	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6679; ESTC R18756	9,764	37

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