Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	blood_n	body_n	lord_n	7,994	5	4.1792	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32091	A practical discourse concerning vows with a special reference to baptism and the Lord's Supper / by Edmund Calamy.	Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.	1697 (1697)	Wing C274; ESTC R6151	137,460	320

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