Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	anthony_n	john_n	sir_n	6,300	5	7.3470	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74676	Quatuor novissma: Or, Meditations upon the four last things, delivered in four common-place discourses: by Thomas Longland ...	Longland, Thomas, 1629 or 30-1697.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3002; Thomason E1633_2	52,017	143

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