Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	day_n	let_v	4,092	5	6.7214	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26661	A sermon preached at the funeral of ... Mr. Georg Ritschel, late minister of Hexham in Northumberland by Mr. Major Algood ... ; with an elegie on his death.	Algood, Major, 1641-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing A925; ESTC R20315	9,968	25

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