Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	write_n	write_v	year_n	129	3	4.3720	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47507	A true, perfect, and exact catalogue of all the comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques and interludes, that were ever yet printed and published, till this present year 1671 all which you may either buy or sell, at the shop of Francis Kirkman, in Thames-Street, over against the Custom House, London.	Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing K637A; ESTC R17049	11,346	17

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