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
A64740	Anekdota eteroūiaka, or, The secret history of the house of Medicis written originally by that fam'd historian, the Sieur de Varillas ; made English by Ferrand Spence.; Anecdotes de Florence. English	Varillas, Monsieur (Antoine), 1624-1696.; Spence, Ferrand.	1686 (1686)	Wing V112; ESTC R2059	224,910	556

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