Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	2,714	4	3.0038	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89949	A New case put to an old lawyer, or, Lawyers look about you, for the case is altered quoth Ployden. At a conference held by Prag a slitter of causes, and Prog an attorneys clark of the one part, and Boldface a barrater; alias a bargisters puny, and Hold-case a dependant to the chancery, of the other part. Concerning those two honorable and conscientious courts, viz. committees of grievances and of referrees; where causes are ended with all speed, and without bribes or fees, to the grief of most lawyers and their clarks.		1656 (1656)	Wing N590; Thomason E892_8; ESTC R206559	10,568	17

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