Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	john_n	thomas_n	william_n	6,391	5	10.5783	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34155	The Complaining testimony of some (though weak and of the least) of Sions children in this day of their sore calamity occasioned at their meeting to seek the Lord at Abingdon in Barkshire the second day of the eighth month, 1656 : being a short narrative of the inhumane dealings of some officers and souldiers who said they had order from their lord for so doing.		1656 (1656)	Wing C5611; ESTC R29672	6,804	10

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