Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	common_a	prayer_n	set_v	2,812	5	5.7163	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

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