Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	great_a	life_n	time_n	1,561	5	3.0874	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77081	A book without a title		1649 (1649)	Wing B3722; Thomason E559_12; ESTC P1342	7,057	8

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