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	hour_n	life_n	5,084	5	4.5723	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65771	A true account of the passages at Mergen in the kingdom of Syam after Captain Anthony Weltden arrived at that port in the Curtana frigat, for account of the East India Company / humbly presented to the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled, by Samuel White.	White, Samuel, ca. 1650-1689.	1688 (1688)	Wing W1805A; ESTC R38308	10,053	8

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