Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	wonder_n	work_n	world_n	88	3	3.7227	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47682	Cassandra the fam'd romance : the whole work : in five parts / written originally in French ; now elegantly rendred into English by a person of quality.; Cassandre. English	La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663.; Cotterell, Charles, Sir, d. 1701.	1652 (1652)	Wing L106A; ESTC R42095	1,385,752	872

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