Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bring_v	death_n	see_v	841	5	3.0665	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26239	An account of the wicked design of poysoning the Prince of Orange before he came out of Holland Also a relation from the city of Orange of a strange meteor, representing a crown of light, that was there seen in the air, May 6th, 1688. In a letter from a gentleman in Amsterdam, to his friend in London. Octob. 1. 1688.		1688 (1688)	Wing A424A; ESTC R213089	2,288	4

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