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	live_v	time_n	6,582	5	3.7167	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61854	A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the English prisoners of war being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and back again ... / faithfully and impartially performed by Richard Strutton, being an eye-witness, and a fellow sufferer.	Strutton, Richard.	1690 (1690)	Wing S6018; ESTC R17656	70,729	66

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