Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	father_n	mother_n	sister_n	15,172	5	9.8017	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84950	A Full account of a most tragycal and inhuman murther that was committed lately in Holland, at Sevenbergen, 3 hours walk off the Brill, by one Claes Wells who murthered his father, Henry Wells and his mother, with 3 brothers and one sister, and after sat the house on fire, for which he was executed, within 3 days after.		1699 (1699)	Wing F2262A; ESTC R42498	1,573	2

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