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	read_v	time_n	3,650	5	3.4648	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58453	A letter from a gentleman to his friend in London in confutation of the scurrilous libell of an anonymus [sic] blackloist [sic], against the reverend and learned P.R. up the occasion of his Latine epistle of the clergie's obedience to the sea apostolick. With an inclosed to the libeller himself.	T. R.	1660 (1660)	Wing R86; ESTC R217716	17,104	53

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