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	great_a	hand_n	859	5	4.2355	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34351	Considerations touching the excise of native and forreign commodities (as formerly established) as also how the present excise setled on His Majesty may (with some addition) be improved to the sum resolved on by the Commons in Parliament.		1644 (1644)	Wing C5919; ESTC R8485	8,479	14

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