Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	abraham_n	send_v	speed_n	441	4	9.9761	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

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