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	hot_a	water_n	4,445	5	7.1413	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66877	The unreasonableness of atheism made manifest in a discourse written by the command of a person of honour / by Sir Charles Wolseley ...	Wolseley, Charles, Sir, 1630?-1714.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3315; ESTC R11965	86,568	200

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