Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	flower_n	root_n	white_a	1,662	5	6.2952	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40002	Englands happiness increased, or, A sure and easie remedy against all succeeding dear years by a plantation of the roots called potatoes, whereof (with the addition of wheat flower) excellent, good and wholesome bread may be made every year, eight or nine months together, for half the charge as formerly : also by the planting of these roots ten thousand men in England and Wales, who know not how to live or what to do to get a maintenance for their families, may of one acre of ground make thirty pounds per annum / invented and published for the good of the poorer sort, by John Forster ...	Forster, John.	1664 (1664)	Wing F1601; ESTC R40960	16,456	38

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