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	keep_v	work_n	10,814	5	6.0759	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65147	The Voice of the innocent uttered forth, or, The call of the harmless and oppressed for justice and equity being a brief relation of some remarkable passages, concerning the tryal and sentencing of five of the people of God called Quakers, at the sessions holden at the castle of Northampton, upon the fourth and sixth dayes of the second month, called April, in the year 1665, Richard Rainsford sitting judge, there being present several of those called justices for the said county, two of their names are as followeth, Henry Yelverton and John Willoughby, &c.		1665 (1665)	Wing V678; ESTC R8912	10,694	16

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