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	world_n	13,510	5	4.9137	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85779	The speech of Collonel Hugh Grove, upon the scaffold at Exceter, on Munday last, immediately before his head was severed from his body. With his prayer a little before death, and his declaration and protest to the people, touching a [brace] a [sic] loyal heart, a faithful conscience, a bloody scaffold, and a fatal axe. / Taken by an impartial hand, and transmitted to the press, to the end, it might be printed, published, and dispierced, throughout the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Grove, Hugh, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2246; Thomason E838_10; ESTC R207437	3,815	8

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