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	house_n	771	5	4.7797	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39878	For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a short declaration of the cruelty inflicted upon some of the servants of the Lord now called Quakers, by some barbarous & bloudy men inhabitants in Merionyth shire in North Wales, the 3d month, 1660, and in part of South Wales.		1660 (1660)	Wing F1434; ESTC R42027	5,744	11

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