Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	part_n	3,228	5	4.5997	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51349	More work for the popish implements, Nat. Thompson and the Observator shewing how contradictory they are to themselves from what they were when the one published, and the other allowed this following narrative of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's murder, which for the satisfaction of all people, we have here verbatim reprinted.		1682 (1682)	Wing M2718; ESTC R11188	4,620	4

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