Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	house_n	time_n	11,284	5	3.5200	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54408	The life and death of King Charles the first written by Dr. R. Perinchief : together with Eikon basilike : representing His sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings : and a vindication of the same King Charles the martyr : proving him to be the author of the said Eikon basilike against a memorandum of the late Earl of Anglesey, and against the groundless exceptions of Dr. Walker and others.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712. Vindication of King Charles the martyr.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1595; ESTC R5528	39,966	50

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