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	word_n	5,550	5	4.0137	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59189	Troades, or, The royal captives a tragedy / written originally in Latin by Lucius Annæus Seneca ... ; English'd by Edward Sherburne, Esq. ; with annotations.; Troades. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2528; ESTC R13947	96,897	136

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