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	life_n	16,696	5	4.8534	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39022	An Elegy on the death of Sir Edmund Saunders late lord chief justice of England, who dyed on the 19th of this instant June, 1683.		1683 (1683)	Wing E381; ESTC R36076	1,337	1

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