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	life_n	live_v	4,791	5	5.2156	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92911	Twenty and two epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca, the philosopher translated out of the originall, into English verse.; Epistulae morales ad Lucillium. English. 1654	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.	1654 (1654)	Wing S2530; ESTC R42606	41,401	89

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