Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	call_v	day_n	good_a	1,135	5	3.3231	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02705	A discourse betwixt Alexander the Great, and Dindimus King of the Brachmans, which has been printed in Greek and Latine, and also into High Dutch, in anno 1642. / And made into English by T Raicroft in London, 1668.	Raicroft, T., fl. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing D1575A; ESTC R174655	4,551	9

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