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	fear_n	fear_v	5,042	5	6.6071	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58606	A new and further narrative of the state of New-England being a continued account of the bloudy Indian-War, from March till August, 1676, giving a perfect relation of the several devastations, engagements, and transactions there : as also the great successes lately obtained against the barbarous Indians, the reducing of King Philip, and the killing of one of the queens, &c. : together with a catalogue of the losses in the whole sustaining on either side since the said war began, as near as can be collected.	N. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S120; ESTC R8787	15,197	18

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