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	place_n	sea_n	5,022	5	6.4533	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14335	Extremities vrging the Lord Generall Sir Fra: Veare to the anti-parle with the Archduke Albertus. Written by an English gentleman of verie good account from Ostend, to a worshipfull gentleman his friend heere in England, imprinted verbatìm according to the originall. VVith a declaration of the desperate attempt made since, by the sayde Arch-dukes forces, for the winning of the ould towne	English gentleman of very good account.	1602 (1602)	STC 24651; ESTC S119078	14,775	24

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