Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fresh_a	salt_n	sea_n	5,044	5	7.2576	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80087	A proposal to prevent further decay in harbours, &c. without charge. To the Honourable the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled. / Your petitioner Robert Colepepyr, Gentleman ...	Colepepyr, Robert.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1698 (1698)	Wing C5060; ESTC R171424	4,042	8

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