Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	begin_v	good_a	great_a	785	5	2.4002	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48659	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of Mrs. Ann Margetson, a young lady, under the age of fourteen years In the church of Clerkenwell: on Sunday, November the 12th. 1693. By Ralph Lambert, chaplain to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Montague, and his lady, Her Grace, the Dutchess of Albemarle; and rector of Grindon in Staffordshire.	Lambert, Ralph, 1665?-1731.	1693 (1693)	Wing L243A; ESTC R222009	11,977	34

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