Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	sin_n	4,328	5	4.6860	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08446	The Behaviour, confession, and execution of the twelve prisoners that suffered on Wednesday, the 22nd of Jan. 1678/9. viz. Robert Freeman, [brace] drawn and hang'd neer Little-Britain for murdering his late master there. At Tyburn, George Brown, John Butler, Richard Mills, Christ. Bruncker, George Kenian, [brace] for a burglary and felony in Hatton-Garden, taking away 380 ounces of plate, besides rings and money, under pretence of searching for Papists. William Brain, [brace] for stealing a horse, having been burnt in the hand formerly. Timothy Smith and Margaret Wells, [brace] for a burglary and felony in St. Giles. William Atkinson and William Tiney, [brace] for a burglary and felony in White-Chappel. Francis Jones, [brace] for a felony and burglary. Gving a true account of their deportment in prison after sentence, and last words, as far as material, at execution / attested by Mr. Ordinary.		1678-1679? (1679)	Wing B1707; ESTC R234484	3,557	10

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