Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	daughter_n	father_n	sister_n	3,488	5	10.2759	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67715	Cyrus le Grand the entire story Done into English by a person of quality and dedicated to the late King; Anabasis. English.	Xenophon.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1654 (1654)	Wing X3B; ESTC R221067	278,614	229

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