Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40836	The famous and renowned history of Amadis de Gaule conteining the heroick deeds of armes and strange adventures, aswell [sic] of Amadis himself, as of Perion his son, and Lisvart of Greece, son to Esplandian, Emperor of Constantinople : wherein is shewed the wars of the Christians against the Turks, the death of Armato, King of Turkie, and the strange death of Melea the enchantress, the love Perion de Gaule, otherwise the knight of the sphere, to Grieilerea, daughter to the Emperor of Trebisond, and of Lisvart of Greece, sometimes called the knight of the true cross to Onolerea, another daughter to the Emperor of Trebisond : together with the acts and strange adventures of many other great lords and princes, aswell [sic] Christians as pagans : being the sixt part never before published / translated out of French into English by Francis Kirkman.; Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance)	Lobeira, Vasco de, d. 1403.; Lobeira, Joâo de, d. 1386?; Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680.	1652 (1652)	Wing F358; ESTC R8908	166,622	254

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