Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	air_n	call_v	soil_n	1,692	5	10.9944	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70310	The Travels of Don Francisco de Quevedo through terra australis incognita discovering the laws, customs, manners and fashions of the south Indians : a novel, originally in Spanish.	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.	1684 (1684)	Wing H422A; ESTC R40274	55,450	211

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