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	year_n	7,193	5	4.9040	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54647	The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.	Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.; Whately, Stephen.; Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1961; ESTC R36673	106,737	246

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