Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	fair_a	night_n	weather_n	4,455	5	10.7928	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68841	Verus Pater, or A bundell of truths Containing a prognostication, necessary at all times, shewing physicall precepts, and rules of good husbandry, with some other astronomicall rules fit to be obserued. And dedicated to the ancient memory of old Erra-Pater, and his honest meaning.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 24693; ESTC S119116	13,871	43

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