Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bear_v	die_v	live_v	5,060	5	5.3319	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16668	A new spring shadovved in sundry pithie poems. Musophilus	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1619 (1619)	STC 3574; ESTC S106131	13,301	40

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