Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	dead_a	faith_n	live_a	4,900	5	9.8873	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87288	Intelligence from the armie in a letter, dated from His Excellencie's quarters, near Reading, June 5, 1643 with a relation of Captain Wingates escape from Oxford, and the condition of the prisoners there, being about 70.		1643 (1643)	Wing I261; Thomason E105_16; ESTC P1069	7,628	16

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