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	end_n	life_n	5,420	5	4.4520	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58458	A relation of the strange apparition of the five Jesuits lately executed at Tyburn upon the account of treason, being a wonderful token of their disquiet, and some things considerable referring to their guilt discovered to two gentlemen of eminent credit, upon the road between London and Acton, travelling for Chippenham in Wiltshire : closed up with an ingenious and merry piece of history, concerning no Jesuits in hell.		1680 (1680)	Wing R871; ESTC R3918	4,463	4

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