Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	charles_n	king_n	son_n	5,345	5	5.4847	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31206	A moral treatise upon valour divided into two books / translated from the French.; Traité de morale sur la valeur. English	Cassagnes, Jacques de, 1635-1679.; Compton, Samuel.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1215; ESTC R22869	65,804	204

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