Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	day_n	heaven_n	water_n	6,118	5	6.3597	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20788	The royall guest: or, A sermon preached at Lent Assises, anno Dom. M.DC.XXXVI. at the cathedrall of Sarum being the first Sunday of Lent, before Sr. Iohn Finch and Sr. John Denham His Majesties justices of assise. By Thomas Drant of Shafton in com. Dorset.	Drant, Thomas, b. 1601 or 2.	1637 (1637)	STC 7165; ESTC S109882	20,792	38

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