Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	bear_v	fruit_n	tree_n	2,434	5	8.1649	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25272	The pleasures of love and marriage a poem in praise of the fair sex, in requital for The folly of love, and some other late satyrs on women.	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.	1691 (1691)	Wing A2987; ESTC R8818	10,612	31

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