Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	dry_a	hot_a	moist_a	3,301	5	10.4672	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08904	A hundred and fouretene experiments and cures of the famous physitian Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus; translated out of the Germane tongue into the Latin. Whereunto is added certaine excellent and profitable workes by B.G. a Portu Aquitano. Also certaine secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the vegetall and animall worke. Also the spagericke antidotarie for gunne-shot of Iosephus Quirsitanus. Collected by Iohn Hester; Centum quindecim curationes experimentaque è Germanico idiomate in Latinum versa. English	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Hester, John, d. 1593.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent. Opera mineralia et vegetabilia. English. Selections.; Penot, Bernard Georges.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. Antidotarium spagiricum. English.	1596 (1596)	STC 19180; ESTC S120733	69,978	98

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