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	hour_n	life_n	4,496	5	4.6534	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27409	The bloody assizes, or, A compleat history of the life of George Lord Jefferies, from his birth to this present time ... to which is added Major Holmes's excellent speech, with the dying speeches and prayers of many other eminent Protestants : none of which were ever before publish'd ...	Bent, James.; Holmes, Abraham, d. 1685.; Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1905; ESTC R23364	51,348	72

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