Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	life_n	write_v	5,211	5	5.2860	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85116	The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and [ ]et cut it as long and large, as others [ ]ail out of a quarter more. A work [n]ever before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F.	J. F.	1696 (1696)	Wing F42; ESTC R230263	29,959	50

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