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	sin_n	soul_n	27,664	5	5.3490	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25476	An account of the manner of the behaviour of the prisoners who received sentence of death, on Saturday the first of September, 1688 at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. Of which Charles O Bryan and Daniel Carey were executed at Tybun on Friday the 7th of September, 1688. With a relation of their several facts for which they were condemned, and what happened at the place of execution.		1688 (1688)	Wing A323B; ESTC R213071	4,326	4

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