Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	know_v	life_n	time_n	7,912	5	3.6056	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25170	An account of the execution, and last dying speeches of seaven notorious traytors and highway-men Who were executed at Tyburn, for high-treason, roberies [sic] on the high-way, murthers, and fellonies, on Wednesday, the 25th. of this instant July, 1683. As also their deportment in Newgate, after their condemnation; and what else remarkable happened.		1683 (1683)	Wing A286A; ESTC R215579	2,436	2

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