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	wing_n	4,889	5	10.2119	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25376	The hermetick romance, or, The chymical wedding written in High Dutch by Christian Rosencreutz ; translated by E. Foxcroft ...; Chymische Hochzeit. English. 1690	Rosencreutz, Christian.; Foxcroft, E.	1690 (1690)	Wing A3114; ESTC R8341	77,533	192

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