Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	good_a	half_a	time_n	6,646	5	4.5824	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37368	A Declaration of the besieged soldiers in the city of Colchester and their resolution concerning the surrendring of the said city also the planting two demi-canon against it, and the battering down part of Saint Maries Church, and how a partie of the Lord Cepel's shavers issued forth ef [sic] Buttolphs-gate, aud [sic] set upon our pioneers, and tooke some prisoners, and hewed one of our men to peeces with their sythes : moreover the taking of divers horse from underneath the walls, and the killing of one of their commanders, together with a true relation of the proceedings betwixt the Scots and Major Generall Lambert, and the last news from Portsmouth.		1648 (1648)	Wing D643; ESTC R40377	3,246	9

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