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	see_v	work_n	2,826	5	5.0057	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28568	Three charges delivered at the General Quarter Sessions holden at Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in the years 1691, 1692 to which is added the author's vindication for the calumnies and mistakes cast on him on account of his geographical dictionary / by Edmund Bohun ...	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3462; ESTC R6022	15,248	34

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