Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	day_n	king_n	time_n	4,592	5	3.4151	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87156	Plain dealing: or, The countreymans doleful complaint and faithful watchword, to the statesmen of the times, whether in the Parliament or Army. Wherein is set down, the rise, nature, and species of right government, with the corruption thereof in former, and this our generation, to this present time. / By Edward Harrison of Keensworth in Hertfordshire, sometimes preacher to Col: Harrison's regiment.	Harrison, Edward, of Keensworth in Hertfordshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing H889; Thomason E554_22; ESTC R13821	12,317	16

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