Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	alive_a	dead_a	life_n	5,787	5	5.0987	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53559	A copy of verses, humbly presented to all his worthy masters and mistrisses in the town of Lambeth. By Thomas Ouldman, belman.	Ouldman, Thomas.	1688 (1688)	Wing O590D; ESTC R214544	2,211	1

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