Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	6,631	5	4.9369	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42560	A new discovery of an excellent method of bee houses & colonies to free the owners from the great charge and trouble that attends the swarming of bees, and delivers the bees from the evil reward of ruine for the benefit they brought their masters : advantaging their owners many-fold above what-ever any method heretofore practic'd doth experienced seven years by John Gedde ...	Gedde, John.	1675 (1675)	Wing G443; ESTC R10250	9,730	40

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