Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	read_v	see_v	time_n	3,254	5	3.4751	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61487	Occasions off-spring, or, Poems upon severall occasions by Mathew Stevenson.	Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685.	1645 (1645)	Wing S5504; ESTC R14739	54,320	144

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