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	pass_v	river_n	3,950	5	7.4755	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75544	The Argument and reasons of the brethren of Trinity-house, touching the breach in the level near Purfleet in Essex whereby the river of Thames is much damnify'd, and the navigation thereof greatly obstructed, and in danger of being wholly destroy'd.		1695 (1695)	Wing A3632B; ESTC R42463	2,238	2

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