Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	see_v	14,635	5	3.6189	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91651	The Repenting sinner pardoned being a brief relation of the wicked life, and penitent pious death of James Wilson of Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire, who died February 21. 1668 / made publick by such as were ear and eye witnesses of the same, for a warning to such as live ungodly.	Wilson, James, d. 1668.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1046C; ESTC R42561	8,330	31

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