Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	write_v	year_n	612	4	4.5551	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37911	The fellow-traveller through city and countrey	Edmundson, Henry, 1607?-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing E181; ESTC R38856	87,865	322

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