Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	best_a	think_v	time_n	758	5	3.2156	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25921	An Account of the seducing of Ann, the daughter of Edward Ketelbey, of Ludlow, Gent., to the popish religion with some very extraordinary passages relating thereto, particularly of the gross prevarications, and insolent boldness of the two popish bishops, Leyborn and Gifford, in the management of it ...		1700 (1700)	Wing A382; ESTC R7165	9,323	8

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