Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	call_v	left_a	right_a	6,194	5	6.0677	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00679	The particular state of the government of the Emperour, Ferdinand the Second As it was at his decease in the yeere 1636. Translated out of Latin by R.W.; Status particularis regiminis S.C. Majestatis Ferdinandi II. English.	R. W., fl. 1637.	1637 (1637)	STC 10813; ESTC S101977	33,264	80

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