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	night_n	time_n	1,102	5	3.1571	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66880	A true and impartial account of the present state of affairs in London-derry in Ireland being a relation of a great fight betwixt the Protestants and the French and Irish papists : with the number of persons slain and prisoners taken : in a letter from Captain Woosley, from on board the fleet with Major General Kirk, lying at anchor in the mouth of London-derry harbor.	Wolseley, William, 1640?-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing W3316B; ESTC R26394	1,696	1

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