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	live_v	soul_n	15,929	5	5.3820	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39628	Five new letters from Ostend, sent by some English soldiers which were in the late battel before Mons, to their friends in London	I. D.	1678 (1678)	Wing F1115; ESTC R18290	3,037	9

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