Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	speak_v	zion_n	18	3	8.5325	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67695	The last discourse of the Right Honble the Lord Warestoune, as he delivered it upon the scafford at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, July 22. 1663. being immediately before his death Whereunto is added a short narration of his carriage during the time of his imprisonment, but more especially at his death: all which is very comfortable and refreshing to all those that take pleasure in the dust of Zion, and favour the stones of our Lord's broken-down building amongst us. By a Favourer of the Covenant and work of reformation.	Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663.	1664 (1664)	Wing W984; ESTC R222558	17,646	20

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