Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	age_n	live_v	old_a	4,232	5	5.4475	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43109	A description of the Duke's Bagnio, and of the mineral bath and new spaw thereunto belonging with an account of the use of sweating, rubbing, bathing, and the medicinal vertues of the spaw / by Sam. Haworth.	Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1191; ESTC R19389	26,483	126

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