Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	find_v	read_v	see_v	2,567	5	2.9993	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52227	Nevvs from the sessions, or, A true relation of all the proceedings at the sessions in the Old-Bayly, Sep. 9th, 1674 where there were twenty one persons cast : with the number and particular crimes of the persons to be executed, and all other things there transacted, and especially the tryal & behaviour of Iohn Randal that lately kill'd the vvoman in Houlbourn.		1674 (1674)	Wing N1015; ESTC R3174	2,241	16

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