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	time_n	18,635	5	3.9362	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75727	The great venture shewing that man's life in this world is a venture, wherein he runs the hazard of an everlasting estate of happiness or misery in another world, according as he behaves himself here : also advice to youth, with several other things profitable for all who will seriously read and mind them / by E.A., a well-wisher to the souls of men.	E. A.	1668 (1668)	Wing A3C; ESTC R222189	6,947	20

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