Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	heaven_n	word_n	15,568	5	3.9347	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20907	The life, death and actions of the most chast, learned, and religious lady, the Lady Iane Gray, daughter to the Duke of Suffolke Containing foure principall discourses written with her owne hands. The first an admonition to such as are weake in faith: the second a catechisme: the third an exhortation to her sister: and the last her words at her death.; Epistle of the ladye Jane to a learned man of late falne from the truth of Gods word	Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 7281; ESTC S119400	15,132	26

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