Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	let_v	life_n	time_n	6,573	5	3.7546	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34566	Corinna, or, Humane frailty a poem : with an answer to the E. of R--'s satyr against man.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680. Satyr against mankind.	1699 (1699)	Wing C6297; ESTC R3629	6,381	24

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