Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	7,565	5	3.3975	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52228	Nevvs from the sessions, or, The whole tryal of George Allen the butcher vvho murthered his vvife in the fields behind Islington, on Friday the 5th of this instant February, and the manner how the same came to be discovered : as also the full tryal of John Harter the oastler, for stealing au [sic] horse, and an hundred and twenty pounds of money, for which he is convicted of felony : with the tryals of several other malefactors for divers notorious crimes, and other remarkable passages at the sessions begun at Justice-hall in the Old Bayly, the 19th of Febr. 1674/5.	England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1675 (1675)	Wing N1016; ESTC R38114	3,233	10

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