Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	light_n	night_n	rule_v	2,456	5	10.2979	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28549	Summum bonum, or, An explication of the divine goodness in the words of the most renowned Boetius translated by a lover of truth and virtue.; De consolatione philosophiae. English	Boethius, d. 524.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3434; ESTC R7385	77,686	220

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