Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	contain_v	history_n	year_n	3,071	5	5.5025	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55664	The true history of Cara Mustapha, late grand vizier being a most faithful account of his first rising, the several degrees of his fortune, his amours in the serraglio, his emplois, the true cause of his undertaking the siege of Vienna, together with the particulars of his death / written originally in French by a person of quality, and now translated in English by Francis Philon.	Préchac, Jean de, 1647?-1720.; Philon, Francis.	1685 (1685)	Wing P3209; ESTC R25822	50,347	153

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