Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	entertainment_n	find_v	great_a	71	3	2.1246	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88142	A few, and new observations, vpon the booke of Genesis. The most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely heard off before. By Iohn Lightfoote Staffordiens.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing L2054; Thomason E118_19; ESTC R22089	13,302	28

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