Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	crown_n	england_n	king_n	4,225	5	4.0191	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48040	A Letter from an absent lord to one of his friends in the convention		1689 (1689)	Wing L1442; ESTC R43389	8,759	4

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