Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	finger_n	right_a	thumb_n	5,966	5	13.7675	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81733	A Dreadful account of a barbarous bloody murther committed on the body of one Mr. Cymball, at his own house, in Old Soho, on the 31st of January, 1694 ...		1695 (1695)	Wing D2148A; ESTC R42484	1,572	2

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