Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	appoint_v	place_n	time_n	1,168	5	4.4869	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17890	The conquest of the Grand Canaries made this last summer by threescore and thirteene saile of shippes, sent forth at the command and direction of the states generall of the vnited prouinces, to the coast of Spaine and the Canarie-Isles: with the taking of a towne in the Ile of Gomera, and the successe of part of the saide fleete in their returne homeward. Which set saile for Spaine the 25: of Maie, and returned home the 10. of Septemb. 1599.		1599 (1599)	STC 4556; ESTC S110757	17,947	32

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