Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	left_a	right_a	side_n	20,818	5	7.2755	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28376	A true history of a child anatomized, which remained twenty five years in his mothers belly with all those reflections which the phænomena of the same may explain : very serviceable and useful for all, especially physicians, chirurgeons, and midwives / by Nicolas de Blegny ... ; translated according to the approved and priviledged copy of Paris ; with copper plates.; Histoire anathomique d'un enfant qui a demeuré vingt-cinq ans dans le ventre de sa mère. English	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.	1680 (1680)	Wing B3187; ESTC R7794	8,482	58

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