Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	eye_n	see_v	5,452	5	3.9103	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08456	A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of human bodies. Part I a sermon preached at Saint Martin's in the Fields, May 2. 1692. Being the third of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by Richard Bentley.	Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.; Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing B1921A; ESTC R175533	14,708	34

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