Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	air_n	element_n	part_n	2,596	5	4.8760	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40447	The doctors physician, or, Dialogues concerning health translated out of the original French.; Dialogues de la santé. English. 1685	Frémont d'Ablancourt, Nicolas, 1625?-1693.	1685 (1685)	Wing F2168; ESTC R36439	73,469	227

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