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	young_a	youth_n	649	4	8.7145	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26784	The danger of prosperity discovered in several sermons upon Prov. I. 27 / by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1685 (1685)	Wing B1103; ESTC R15611	66,480	256

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