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	heart_n	part_n	1,385	5	4.9423	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45166	Characters of vertue and vice described in the persons of the wise-man, the valiant man ... attempted in verse from a treatise of the reverend Joseph Hall, late lord bishop of Exeter / by N. Tate.	Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Characters of vertues and vices.	1691 (1691)	Wing H372; ESTC R3871	10,123	38

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