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death_n day_n end_n time_n 4,265 5 3.5689 3 false
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A34403 The English oracle, or, A late prophecy of the miseries that will happen this next year, 1679 by A.C. A. C. 1679 (1679) Wing C6; ESTC R29170 3,671 10

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