Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	year_n	4,245	5	4.7587	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28422	Bloody news from Shrewsbury being a true and perfect relation of a horrible villain, by name Thomas Renolds ... he before he was eighteen years of age, murdered Alice Stephens, and her daughter ... for all which, and many other smaller facts ... he was condemned and hanged in chains at Shrewsbury the 14th day of March, 1672/3.		1673 (1673)	Wing B3279; ESTC R35350	2,714	8

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