Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	abide_v	able_a	torment_n	26	3	8.3564	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06128	The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke; Ab urbe condita. English	Livy.; Florus, Lucius Annaeus. Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II. English. Selections.; Marliani, Bartolomeo, d. 1560. Topographia antiquae Romae. English.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.	1600 (1600)	STC 16613; ESTC S114001	2,515,844	1,456

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