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	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20892	The secretary of ladies. Or, A new collection of letters and answers, composed by moderne ladies and gentlewomen, collected by Mounsieur Du Bosque. Translated out of French by I.H.; Nouveau recueil de lettres des dames de ce temps avec leurs responses. English	Du Boscq, Monsieur.; Hainhofer, Jerome.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 7267; ESTC S109959	69,231	286

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