Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	able_a	great_a	time_n	1,477	5	3.3086	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57367	A discourse of sea-ports principally of the port and haven of Dover / written by Sir Walter Rawleigh and address'd to Queen Elizabeth ; with useful remarks, &c., on that subject, by command of His late Majesty, K. Charles the Second.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.; Sheeres, Henry, Sir, d. 1710.	1700 (1700)	Wing R157; ESTC R20710	12,188	21

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