Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	11,896	5	9.9757	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61107	A discourse concerning prodigies wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated / by John Spencer.	Spencer, John, 1630-1693.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4947; ESTC R24605	129,689	118

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facti_fw-la etc._n etc._n dio._n hist._n l._n 66._o blood_n and_o fire_n audires_fw-la ubulatus_fw-la foeminarum_fw-la infantûm_fw-la quiritatus_fw-la clamores_fw-la virorum_fw-la alii_fw-la parent_n alii_fw-la liberos_fw-la alii_fw-la conjuges_fw-la requirebant_fw-la plin._n de_fw-fr eodem_fw-la vesuv_n epist._n l._n 6._o ep_n 20._o and_o pillar_n of_o smoke_n nubes_fw-la ex_fw-la ardente_fw-la vesuvio_n oriebatur_fw-la cujus_fw-la similitudinem_fw-la &_o formam_fw-la non_fw-la alia_fw-la magis_fw-la arbour_n quam_fw-la pinus_fw-la expresserat_fw-la a_o tree_n much_o imitate_v a_o pillar_n in_o its_o shape_n and_o figure_n idem_fw-la l._n 6._o ep._n 16._o the_o sun_n shall_v be_v turn_v into_o darkness_n and_o the_o moon_n into_o blood_n jam_fw-la dies_fw-la alibi_fw-la illîc_fw-la nox_fw-la omnibus_fw-la no●tibus_fw-la nigrior_fw-la densiórque_fw-la quam_fw-la tamen_fw-la face_n multae_fw-la variáque_fw-la lumina_fw-la solvebant_fw-la ep_n 16._o mox_fw-la dies_fw-la verus_fw-la sol_fw-la etiam_fw-la effulsit_fw-la luridus_fw-la tamen_fw-la qualis_fw-la esse_fw-la cum_fw-la deficit_fw-la s●let_fw-la nox_fw-la non_fw-la qualis_fw-la illunis_fw-la &_o nebula_fw-la sed_fw-la qualis_fw-la in_o locis_fw-la clausis_fw-la lumine_fw-la extincto_fw-la etc._n etc._n ep_n 20._o and_o there_o shall_v be_v sign_n in_o the_o sun_n and_o in_o the_o moon_n upon_o earth_n distress_n of_o nation_n luk._n 21._o 25._o tantus_fw-la fuit_fw-la cinis_fw-la ut_fw-la indè_fw-la pervenerit_fw-la in_o africam_fw-la syriam_fw-la &_o aegyptum_fw-la introieritque_fw-la romam_fw-la ejúsque_fw-la aerem_fw-la compleverit_fw-la &_o solemn_a obscuraverit_fw-la nec_fw-la mediocris_fw-la etiam_fw-la romae_fw-la trepidatio_fw-la complures_fw-la ad_fw-la dies_fw-la accidit_fw-la etc._n etc._n putare_fw-la coeperunt_fw-la omne_fw-la sursum_fw-la deorsum_fw-la ferri_fw-la solémque_fw-la in_o terram_fw-la cadere_fw-la ac_fw-la terram_fw-la in_o coelum_fw-la ascendere_fw-la dion_n lib._n 66._o the_o sea_n and_o the_o wave_n roar_v mare_n in_o se_fw-la resorberi_fw-la &_o tremore_fw-la terrae_fw-la quasi_fw-la repelli_fw-la videbatur_fw-la plin._n ep_n 20._o man_n heart_n fail_v they_o for_o fear_n and_o for_o look_v after_o the_o thing_n which_o be_v come_v on_o the_o earth_n erant_fw-la qui_fw-la