Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	call_v	lord_n	word_n	4,304	5	3.9970	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42134	The doctrine of the asse, or, A brief account of their principles and practice in whose behalf the complaint was written that it may serve for advice to others : whereunto is added the asse's complaint, Balaam's reply, and the authors apology / by Lewis Griffin.	Griffin, Lewis.	1661 (1661)	Wing G1982; ESTC R28049	18,183	44

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