Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	clear_a	gale_n	good_a	14	3	2.1444	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53133	News from Frost-Fair upon the river of Thames : being a description of the boths, tents, accomodations, frollicks, sports and humours of those innumerable crowd's of resorters, the like never before published : to the tune of Come from the temple to the bed, &c.		1683 (1683)	Wing N957B; ESTC R33624	1,556	1

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