Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	army_n	place_n	time_n	1,582	5	3.0496	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06673	The second part of the historie, called The nature of a woman contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus. Compiled by C.M.	C. M., fl. 1596.; Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628, attributed name.	1596 (1596)	STC 17127; ESTC S119676	23,507	44

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