Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	word_n	write_v	129	4	5.2331	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67665	A Warning-piece to all married men and women being the full confession of Mary Hobry the French midwife, who murdered her husband on the 27th of January 1687/8 (as also the cause thereof), for which she receiv'd the sentence to be burnt alive, and on Friday the second day of March between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning she was drawn upon a sledge to Leicester-fields, where she was burnt to ashes.		1688 (1688)	Wing W935; ESTC R33557	2,914	1

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