Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	earth_n	live_v	4,065	5	5.2770	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18047	The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.	Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.	1599 (1599)	STC 4691; ESTC S107896	106,455	205

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