Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	dead_a	raise_v	5,340	5	7.2294	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43265	The Æthiopian history of Heliodorus in ten books / the first five translated by a person of quality, the last five by N. Tate ; to which are prefixed the testimonies of writers, both ancient and modern concerning this work ...; Aethiopica. English	Heliodorus, of Emesa.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.; Person of quality.	1686 (1686)	Wing H1373; ESTC R9676	186,701	399

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