Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	find_v	great_a	king_n	3,579	5	3.5272	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59607	The true Christians test, or, A discovery of the love and lovers of the world by Samuel Shaw ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3045; ESTC R39531	240,664	418

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