Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	bring_v	great_a	house_n	1,501	5	4.9964	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48422	The life of William Fuller, the late pretended evidence now a prisoner in the King's-Bench, who was declared by the Honourable House of Commons, Nemine contradicente, to be a notorious imposter, a cheat, and a false accuser of persons of honour and quality with all his pranks and villainies, &c. to this present first of March.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1692 (1692)	Wing L2039; ESTC R4824	23,826	36

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