Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	write_v	writing_n	year_n	15	3	4.7390	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15863	The discouerie and conquest of the prouinces of Peru, and the nauigation in the South Sea, along that coast And also of the ritche mines of Potosi.; Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Peru. English	Zárate, Agustin de, b. 1514.; Nicholas, Thomas, b. ca. 1532.	1581 (1581)	STC 26123; ESTC S111812	127,592	201

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