Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	wonder_n	world_n	young_a	36	3	5.7763	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37568	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of John Melford ... who dyed (aged eighteen years) the 21st day of June, through the sad occasion of a fall from a horse, and was buried ... the 27th day of the same month, 1692 / by Tho. Easton ...	Easton, Thomas, b. 1661 or 2.	1692 (1692)	Wing E107; ESTC R19705	19,674	31

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