Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	day_n	good_a	time_n	8,720	5	4.3323	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91549	The interest of creditors and debtors, or the duty that is incumbent on both, by the laws moral, civil, and divine. With their respective interest stated. Published, for their mutual benefit, by an impartial observer of the often severity of the former, and defection of the latter	P. P.	1673 (1673)	Wing P93A; ESTC R229888	13,052	32

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