Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	arm_n	foot_n	neck_n	4,690	5	11.2560	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61891	The miraculous conformist, or, An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick with a physicall discourse thereupon ... / by Henry Stubbe.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1666 (1666)	Wing S6062; ESTC R28187	21,038	52

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