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	stand_v	23,693	5	7.0021	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30870	Rarities, or, The incomparable curiosities in secret writing, both aswel [i.e. as well as] by waters as cyphers, explained and made familiar to the meanest capacity by which ministers of state may manage the intrigues of court and grand concerns of princes, the ladies communicate their amours, and every ordinary person (onely capable of legible writing) may order his private affairs with all imaginable safety and secrecy ... / by G.B.	G. B., gent.	1665 (1665)	Wing B69; ESTC R4883	8,831	28

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