Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	day_n	time_n	1,694	5	3.4053	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43915	The history of the birth, travels, strange adventures, and death of Fortunatus wherein is contained such variety both of comical and tragical discourse, that the like is not afforded in any histories of this nature : there being added likewise several new additions which was not in the original copy from whence it was translated ... : with the illustration of several new pictures.; Fortunatus (Romance). English.		1682 (1682)	Wing H2145; ESTC R4743	59,126	85

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