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	element_n	water_n	13,099	5	6.7742	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35994	A discourse of sea-ports principally the port and haven of Dover / written by Sir Walter Rawleigh and address'd to Queen Elizabeth ; with useful remarks &c, on that subject by command of His late Majesty K. Charles the second.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.	1700 (1700)	Wing D1458; ESTC R20710	12,200	22

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