Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	hour_n	minute_n	year_n	13,432	5	6.5194	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35307	The Cruel French lady, or, A True and perfect relation of the most execrable murthers committed by a French lady upon the persons of her own father, two brothers and sister, with a particular account how she contracted for 12,000 crowns with a French apothecary to extract poysons for her ... with the manner how they put them in use ... : together with an account how their devilish practice came to be discovered / faithfully rendred from a relation sent from Paris.		1673 (1673)	Wing C7418; ESTC R39616	4,146	9

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