Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	great_a	king_n	scot_n	1,813	5	9.2331	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55756	A great sea-fight which was fought lately upon the coast of Dunkirke, between the Babylonians and the Dunkirkers as also the relation of the reason why the Babylonians came so near this way, which was to invade the Kingdom of England : how they were shipwrackt on the coasts of Egypt, and overthrowne in fight by the Dunkirkers : at the recitall of which the Soldan of Babylon strook the messonger of this ill newes, and afterwards burned his palace, wherein he and others perished / written by Iohn Preston ...	Preston, John, Sea-captain.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3309; ESTC R2384	2,805	8

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