Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	deliver_v	good_a	lord_n	8,077	5	5.2704	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81108	The cry of blood; or, the horrid sin of murther display'd. In the true relation of three several murthers committed within the compass of one week viz. of Capt. Campbell on the 4th. Mr. - a beadle in the Strand, on the 6th. and of Mr. Baker, commonly call'd Capt. Baker, on the 7th of this instant Aprill, 1692. With a particular account of the circumstances of each tragical accident.		1692 (1692)	Wing C7449aA; ESTC R230228	2,648	2

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