Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	time_n	10,716	5	3.7938	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05075	The profit of imprisonment A paradox, vvritten in French by Odet de la Noue, Lord of Teligni, being prisoner in the castle of Tournay. Translated by Iosuah Silvester.; Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités. English	La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, d. 1618.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.	1594 (1594)	STC 15216; ESTC S109328	23,156	38

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