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	day_n	river_n	1,171	5	7.0899	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22622	The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe A most elegant history, written in Greeke by Achilles Tatius: and now Englished.; Leucippe and Clitophon. English	Achilles Tatius.; Hodges, Anthony, 1613 or 14-1686.	1638 (1638)	STC 91; ESTC S100406	118,483	280

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