Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	rejoice_v	young_a	youth_n	75	3	8.2577	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03402	Histoire des larrons, or The history of theeves. Written in French, and translated out of the originall, by Paul Godwin; Histoire generale des larrons. English	Calvi, François de.; Godwin, Paul, fl. 1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 13523; ESTC S104108	74,053	330

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