Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	birth_n	common_a	great_a	85	3	2.1277	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27299	The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France.	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1739; ESTC R18177	53,278	178

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