Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	base_a	choose_v	great_a	80	3	2.1280	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82242	A declaration of the vvel-affected in the county of Buckinghamshire. Being a representation of the middle sort of men within the three chilterne hundreds of Disbrough, Burnum, and Stoke, and part of Alisbury hundred, whereby they declare their resolution and intentions, with a removall of their grievances.		1649 (1649)	Wing D776; Thomason E555_1; ESTC R205704	3,107	8

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