Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	city_n	time_n	1,669	5	3.2326	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66697	The honour of merchant-taylors wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick performances of merchant-taylors in former ages, their honourable loves, and knightly adventures ... together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell-Hall, to be a market place for the selling of woollen cloaths ... / written by VVilliam VVinstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3064; ESTC R41412	58,050	83

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