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death_n die_v life_n see_v 16,095 5 3.5035 3 true
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A31626 A Cabinet of grief, or, The French midwife's miserable moan for the barbarous murther committed upon the body of her husband with the manner of her conveying away his limbs and of her execution, she being burnt to ashes on the 2d of March in Leicester-fields. 1688 (1688) Wing C188; ESTC R37457 4,205 17

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