Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	jewel_n	plate_n	time_n	21	3	2.1262	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14170	The doctrinal of princes made by the noble oratour Isocrates, [and] translated out of Greke in to Englishe by syr Thomas Eliot knight; To Nicocles. English	Isocrates.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.	1550 (1550)	STC 14279; ESTC S109091	11,018	40

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