Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	begin_v	death_n	die_v	4,487	5	5.9498	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61292	Poems by Thomas Stanley, Esquire.	Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.	1651 (1651)	Wing S5241; ESTC R226610	23,932	87

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