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	great_a	place_n	1,512	5	4.1011	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40027	A true and exact relation of the marchings of the two regiments of the trained-bands of the city of London being the red & blevv regiments, as also of the three regiments of the auxiliary forces the blew, red, and orange who marched forth for the reliefe of the city of Glocester from August by Henry Foster ...	Foster, Henry.	1643 (1643)	Wing F1625; ESTC R14214	13,599	16

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