Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	good_a	great_a	read_v	3,182	5	5.8148	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33913	Miscellanies upon moral subjects by Jeremy Collier ...	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5257; ESTC R7117	78,515	191

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