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	good_a	great_a	5,821	5	2.7419	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36768	An elegy on the death of the Queen by C.D. rector of K. in S.	C. D. (Charles Darby), d. 1709.	1695 (1695)	Wing D245A; ESTC R31356	4,430	16

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