Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	bear_v	good_a	tree_n	8,220	5	10.2554	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18428	A most true report of the myraculous mouing and sinking of a plot of ground, about nine acres, at VVestram in Kent, which began the 18. of December, and so continued till the 29. of the same moneth. 1596 ...	Chapman, John, fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 4997; ESTC S104954	7,799	16

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