Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	conversation_n	friend_n	great_a	63	3	2.1038	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88955	A true account of the tryals, examinations, confessions, condemnations, and executions of divers witches, at Salem, in New-England for their bewitching of sundry people and cattel to death, and doing other great mischiefs, to the ruine of many people about them. With the strange circumstances that attended their enchantments: and their conversation with devils, and other infernal spirits. In a letter to a friend in London. Licensed according to order.	M. C.	1692 (1692)	Wing M12A; ESTC R231912	4,181	18

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