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	life_n	receive_v	4,808	5	5.4276	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61164	The plague of Athens which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warr / first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius, now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Thucydides.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5041; ESTC R31007	15,295	42

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