Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	honourable_a	right_n	13,405	5	6.9102	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44427	Epistolary poems, on several occasions with several of the choicest stories of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Tibullus's Elegies / translated into English verse by Charles Hopkins.	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Selections. English.; Tibullus. Elegiae. English. Selections.; Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700?	1694 (1694)	Wing H2721; ESTC R13221	28,394	136

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