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	life_n	soul_n	23,154	5	5.3621	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25972	An elegy on His Excellency Lieutenant-General Tolmach by Edm. Arwaker.	Arwaker, Edmund, d. 1730.	1694 (1694)	Wing A3906; ESTC R29415	2,949	9

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