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	fire_n	part_n	3,790	5	4.8476	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35975	A discourse concerning the vegetation of plants spoken by Sir Kenelme Digby at Greshan College on the 23 of January, 1660 [i.e. 1661] : at a meeting for promoting the philosophical knowledge by experiments.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing D1433; ESTC R31325	19,024	102

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