Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	die_v	father_n	year_n	13,732	5	4.9028	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48422	The life of William Fuller, the late pretended evidence now a prisoner in the King's-Bench, who was declared by the Honourable House of Commons, Nemine contradicente, to be a notorious imposter, a cheat, and a false accuser of persons of honour and quality with all his pranks and villainies, &c. to this present first of March.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1692 (1692)	Wing L2039; ESTC R4824	23,826	36

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