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	world_n	10,051	5	4.6017	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28410	The Bloody lover, or, Barbarous nevvs from Glocester a full and true relation how an inhumane villain named William Hall, did on the 16th of October last, most cruelly murther a maid, whose name was Sarah Butt, that was his sweet-heart, as she was milking, cleaving her skull in three places with a hedging-bill, cutting off one of her hands, and giving her several other mortal wounds : as also how he endeavoured to have killed a little child that was with her, and formerly attempted to murther both her and her mother, wounding the latter in several places.		1673 (1673)	Wing B3257; ESTC R39614	2,890	10

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