Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	3,598	5	3.4795	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63606	The True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayly which began on Wednesday the 8th of this instant December 1680 and ended on Thursday the 9th following giving an account of most of the remarkable trials there, viz. for murder, fellonies, and burglaries &c. with a particular relation of their names and the places of their committing their facts, with the number of those condemned to die, burn'd in the hand, transported, and to be whipt ...		1680 (1680)	Wing T2828A; ESTC R27025	3,289	5

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