Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	great_a	king_n	persia_n	1,582	5	10.5277	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15808	Xenophons treatise of housholde; Oeconomicus. English	Xenophon.; Hervet, Gentian, 1499-1584.	1532 (1532)	STC 26069; ESTC S108099	56,979	130

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