Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bear_v	good_a	time_n	952	5	3.2505	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45343	A sermon preached at St. Botolphs Aldersgate, at the funeral of Robert Huntington, Esq., who died April 21 and was buried April 30, 1684 by Timothy Hall ...	Hall, Timothy, 1637?-1690.	1684 (1684)	Wing H443; ESTC R11203	24,130	48

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