Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	lord_n	people_n	world_n	6,132	5	4.7077	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36484	The excellency of publick charity a sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford in New-College-Chappel, on the Feast of the Annuntiation, 1697 / by H. Downes.	Downes, Henry, 1667-1735.	1697 (1697)	Wing D2080; ESTC R25006	12,868	35

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