Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	11,121	5	3.3934	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63563	The True narrative of the confession and execution of the fifteen prisoners at Tyburn, on Monday the 8th of this instant March, 1679/1680 [i.e. 1680] viz. Richard Hodgkinson, John Braford, Timothy Grady, Edward Grady, Randol Russel, William Harris, Joseph Phillips, Evan Wood, William West, William Woodward, William Carter, John Anderson, Frances Lewis, Dorothy Clark, Dorothy Hall, with a particular account of each persons fact for which they suffered.		1680 (1680)	Wing T2779; ESTC R215580	4,686	5

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