Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	little_a	ounce_n	put_v	4,027	5	5.6465	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42233	Lavernæ, or, The Spanish gipsy the whole art, mystery, antiquity, company, noblenesse, and excellency of theeves and theeving : with their statutes, laws, customes, practices, varieties, and differences, also their originall, rise, and beginning, of what parents, education and breeding the author was : with a pleasant discourse hee had in prison with a most famous theefe, and also his last disgrace, being a work no lesse curious than delectable / first written in Spanish by Don. Garcia ; now in English by W.M.; Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English	Garcia, Carlos.; W. M. (William Melvin)	1650 (1650)	Wing G212; ESTC R177476	64,069	288

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