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	good_a	love_v	763	5	5.4326	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31076	Of industry, in five discourses viz. in general, in our general calling as Christians, in our particular calling as gentlemen, in our particular calling as scholars / by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1693 (1693)	Wing B947; ESTC R12830	66,060	193

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30_o 31._o gen._n 3._o 17_o job_n 5._o 7._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d lxx_o interp._n now_o great_a travel_n as_o the_o son_n of_o sirach_n say_v be_v create_v for_o every_o man_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n ecclus._n 40._o 1._o and_o a_o heavy_a yoke_n be_v upon_o the_o son_n of_o adam_n etc._n etc._n ●_o thess._n 3._o 10._o prov._n 19_o 15._o prov._n 20._o 4._o virg._n georg._n ●_o curis_fw-la acuens_fw-la mortalia_fw-la corda_fw-la nec_fw-la torpere_fw-la gravi_fw-la passus_fw-la sua_fw-la regna_fw-la veterno_fw-la virg._n ibid._n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n chrysost._n in_o act._n hom._n 35._o psal._n 37._o 3_o 23._o prov._n 3._o 6._o dii_fw-la laboribus_fw-la omne_fw-la vendunt_fw-la jud._n 6._o 36._o 7._o 7._o 2_o king_n 5._o 2._o josh._n 1._o 7_o 9_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d chrys._n in_o eph._n orat._n

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