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cause_n death_n die_v life_n 5,110 5 5.0778 4 true
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A29600 Britannia victrix, or, The Triumphs of the Royal Navy in the late victorious ingagement with the French fleet May, 1692 a pindarick poem. 1692 (1692) Wing B4818 7,227 18

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