Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	write_v	year_n	yearly_a	24	3	9.3761	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17539	Of Englishe dogges the diuersities, the names, the natures, and the properties. A short treatise written in latine by Iohannes Caius of late memorie, Doctor of Phisicke in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge; and newly drawne into Englishe by Abraham Fleming student. Seene and allowed.; De canibus Britannicis. Part 1. English	Caius, John, 1510-1573.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1576 (1576)	STC 4347; ESTC S113247	32,086	62

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