Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	advance_v	army_n	great_a	1,374	5	3.0767	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08921	A description of the city of Aeth and situation of the castle, with an exact journal of the siege, begun the 17th of May new stile, till the capitulation on the 5th of June, and surrender on the 7th together with the new fortifications made by the French, 1667.		1697 (1697)	Wing D1154B; ESTC R224609	4,706	1

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