Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	154	3	7.9851	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63975	The tribe of Levi A poem.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700, attributed name.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3384B; ESTC R219457	5,497	14

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