Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	country_n	expect_v	great_a	65	3	2.1449	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70877	Psittacorum regio, the land of parrots, or, The she-lands with a description of other strange adjacent countries in the dominions of Prince de l'Amour, not hitherto found in any geographical map / by one of the late most reputed wits.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.	1669 (1669)	Wing P4148D; ESTC R27472	47,642	169

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