Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	bring_v	great_a	king_n	5,003	5	3.5684	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36101	A discourse of the duties on merchandize, more particularly that on sugars occasionally offer'd in answer to a pamphlet intituled The groans of the plantations, &c., exposing the weakness of the said pamphlet ... also shewing how the last imposition on sugars did truly affect that trade ... / by a merchant.	Merchant.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1604; ESTC R41354	21,150	38

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