Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	bring_v	fruit_n	hew_v	3,413	5	12.3365	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59835	A practical discourse concerning a future judgment by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3307; ESTC R14162	228,802	551

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