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	night_n	time_n	11,545	5	3.7585	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72929	A treatise of blazing starres in generall As well supernaturall as naturall: to what countries or people soeuer they appeare in the spacious world.; Super huis anni post Christum natum M.D.XXXI. & quolibet alio cometa exploratio. English	Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1618 (1618)	STC 18413.7; ESTC S123128	25,130	36

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