Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	hold_v	left_a	right_a	19,416	5	6.9201	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19183	A pleasant conceited comedie, wherein is shewed, how a man may chuse a good wife from a bad As it hath bene sundry times acted by the Earle of Worcesters seruants.; How a man may chuse a good wife from a bad	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Cooke, Jo., fl. 1614, attributed name.	1602 (1602)	STC 5594; ESTC S119222	45,928	84

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