Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	prove_v	young_a	youth_n	55	3	7.9499	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30105	Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5462A; ESTC R208625	185,856	386

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as_o the_o more_o proper_a and_o propense_a and_o apt_a to_o make_v good_a its_o action_n by_o a_o more_o handsome_a diligence_n as_o be_v plant_v near_o the_o fountain_n of_o the_o blood_n and_o very_o the_o left_a hand_n seem_v to_o be_v bear_v to_o a_o obsequious_a compliance_n with_o the_o right_n and_o therefore_o when_o quintilian_n call_v for_o this_o accommodation_n he_o seem_v to_o have_v have_v respect_n unto_o the_o interpreter_n of_o nature_n who_o well-grounded_n axiom_n it_o be_v ita_fw-la comparata_fw-la esse_fw-la à_fw-la natura_fw-la ut_fw-la laeva_fw-la dextris_fw-la obsecundent_fw-la arist._n and_o the_o philosopher_n add_v his_o reason_n 25._o in_o another_o place_n quòd_fw-la omne_fw-la sinistra_fw-la dextris_fw-la humidiora_fw-la sunt_fw-la facilius_fw-la obsequi_fw-la atque_fw-la ad_fw-la nutum_fw-la alterius_fw-la fingi_fw-la &_o moveri_fw-la which_o the_o hebrew_n divine_n as_o cresollius_n say_v seem_v to_o have_v have_v respect_n unto_o in_o their_o 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