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	life_n	sin_n	10,560	5	4.5293	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11139	A terrible battell betweene the two consumers of the whole world: time, and death. By Samuell Rowlands	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1606 (1606)	STC 21407; ESTC S112121	12,846	45

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