Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	husband_n	life_n	wife_n	7,693	5	7.8317	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07680	Principles for yong princes Collected out of sundry authors, by George More, Esquire.	More, George, Esquire.; More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 18069; ESTC S113368	43,524	88

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