Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	book_n	life_n	write_v	4,779	5	6.1891	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04841	An halfe-penny-worth of vvit, in a penny-worth of paper. Or, The hermites tale	King, Humphrey.	1613 (1613)	STC 14973; ESTC S109260	12,208	48

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