Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	14,336	5	7.2820	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39848	The Flying serpent, or, Strange news out of Essex being a true relation of a monstrous serpent which hath divers times been seen at a parish called Henham on the Mount within four miles of Saffron-Walden : showing the length, proportion and bigness of the serpent, the place where it commonly lurks, and what means hath been used to kill it : also a discourse of other serpents, and particularly of a cockatrice killed at Saffron-Walden / the truth of thi[s] relation of the serpent is attested, by [brace] Richard Jackson ... [et al.].		1669 (1669)	Wing F1392; ESTC R40946	5,706	9

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