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	word_n	write_v	5,956	5	5.5105	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45395	Alien alētheuein, or, A brief account of one suggestion of the Romanist against The dispatcher dispatched by Henry Hammond ...	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing H512; ESTC R40127	3,595	9

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