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	lord_n	1,658	5	3.5921	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43644	A narrative of a strange and sudden apparition of an arch-angel at the Old-Bayly, on Monday March the Seventh, 1680, English stile, betwixt the hours of three and five in the afternoon, to the great astonishment of the court and all that were present dedicated to all the ministers and church-wardens of the whole nation / by an eye-witness of the apparition.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1835; ESTC R13064	2,785	5

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