Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	father_n	great_a	son_n	7,925	5	4.8539	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80717	Poems, by several persons	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.	1663 (1663)	Wing C6681A; ESTC R224548	25,506	68

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