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	part_n	town_n	5,124	5	6.2205	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13573	The true historie of the late and lamentable aduentures of Don Sebastian king of Portugall after his imprisonment in Naples, vntill this present day, being now in Spaine at Saint Lucar de Barrameda.; Histoire veritable des dernieres et piteuses adventures de Don Sebastian. English	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.	1602 (1602)	STC 23865; ESTC S101268	13,109	28

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