Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	great_a	part_n	place_n	3,938	5	4.2059	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67461	A relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters in North-Holland, Waterland &c. whereby not onely the city of Amsterdam hath received many millions of damage in marchandize, housing, and shipping &c., but also many hundreds of men, women, and children have perished therein : confirmed by the letters and reports of several the most eminent merchants and persons of credit now living in those parts.	J. W.	1675 (1675)	Wing W66; ESTC R37212	1,306	4

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