Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	esq_n	richard_n	william_n	19,666	5	9.1728	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02320	The letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated into English, according to the last edition. By W.T. Esq; Epistolarum liber unus. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Tyrwhit, William.	1634 (1634)	STC 12452; ESTC S103512	145,059	448

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