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	great_a	place_n	994	5	3.9040	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37349	New-England's faction discovered, or, A brief and true account of their persecution of the Church of England, the beginning and progress of the war with the Indians and other late proceedings there in a letter from a gentleman of that country to a person of quality, being an answer to a most false and scandalous pamphlet lately published, intituled News from New-England &c.	C. D.	1690 (1690)	Wing D6; ESTC R29695	10,431	10

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