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	great_a	reason_n	1,648	5	4.3830	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94022	Strange news from Tovver-Ditch being a perfect relation of the vast quantity of fish taken there on Fryday the 20th of this instant October : with the strange manner of their coming in ... as also, the most profitable conjectures of intelligent persons concerning the cause or reason of this wonderful accident.		1670 (1670)	Wing S5909; ESTC R42905	2,312	11

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