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	see_v	soul_n	14,522	5	5.2397	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25408	An Account of the late persecution of the Protestants in the vallys of Piemont, by the Duke of Savoy and the French King, in the year 1686		1688 (1688)	Wing A315; ESTC R1014	40,374	74

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