Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	wise_a	wood_n	word_n	53	3	4.1930	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41898	The remarkable sayings, apothegms and maxims of the Eastern nations abstracted and translated out of their books written in the Arabian, Persian and Turkish language, with remarks / by Monsieur Galland ... translated out of French.; Paroles remarquables, les bon mots, et les maximes des Orientaux. English	Galland, Antoine, 1646-1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing G169; ESTC R7403	112,508	250

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